FULL-SCALE


Meaning of FULL-SCALE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a full-scale attack (= that uses all the available soldiers and weapons )

German troops launched a full-scale attack on the city.

a full-scale riot (= a serious riot, not only a little fighting )

The disturbance escalated into a full-scale riot.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

attack

They had even absorbed and beaten off a full-scale attack on their street distribution structure by a powerful enemy.

This probably sounds like a run-up to a full-scale attack on Oxford and academic knowledge.

But it was 6 September before all the Allied left-wing armies could turn about and launch a full-scale attack on the invaders.

war

As minister of defence, he has instructed the army to step up training and preparations for the contingency of full-scale war .

This time the fighting escalated into full-scale war .

But the glimmering of understanding they now have is perhaps the one thing that makes another full-scale war less likely.

Before anyone knows what's happening, a full-scale war has developed.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The country is on the brink of full-scale civil war.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A week later there arrived a check sufficient to launch a full-scale book donation program in Czechoslovakia.

Flexibility is the keynote and is a feature often recommended in pilot studies preliminary to a full-scale study.

It was the tail end of the season and there was no time for a full-scale tour.

Its inquiry could be followed by a full-scale Monopolies and Mergers Commission probe.

Marillion are now looking like the full-scale international merchants of pomp they've always aimed at being.

They had even absorbed and beaten off a full-scale attack on their street distribution structure by a powerful enemy.

This time the fighting escalated into full-scale war.

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