adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a large/large-scale enterprise
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The company has grown into a large-scale enterprise that employs hundreds of people.
large-scale unemployment (= when a lot of people are unemployed )
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Large-scale unemployment among young people could have terrible social consequences.
large-scale (= showing a small area in a lot of detail )
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a large-scale map of Paris
mass/large-scale redundancies
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The company is preparing large-scale redundancies at its British factories.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
enterprise
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Studies and statistics underline the fact: 200 large-scale enterprises control about half the fabulous material wealth of the United States.
immigration
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The large-scale immigration of Low Country Sinhalese disrupted the local social structure.
industry
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Within large-scale industry , the crippling specialisation of the individual machine-minders is one aspect of the division of labour.
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Marx originally argued that the growth of large-scale industry led to the demise of the peasantry and the development of the proletariat.
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The question of scale: Marx identified the rise of large-scale industry as one of the progressive features of capitalism.
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Steam-power meant a new and intense concentration of large-scale industry and of the labour force to man it.
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For Weber, a bureaucracy was a special form of social organisation particularly associated with modern, large-scale industry and commerce.
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This figure was 2.7 times higher than for employees in large-scale industry .
map
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The plan showed the outlines of a dozen houses and a service road superimposed on a large-scale map .
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He found a large-scale map of the Sahara and studied it.
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Chapter Two Sam McCready spent most of the next day, Monday, poring over large-scale maps and photographs.
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A large-scale map of the Woodfield Estate lay before him.
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She plotted the figures on a large-scale map with the help of aerial photographs.
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The living room was fitted as a command post with radio and large-scale maps on the wall.
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A large-scale map was pinned to one wall and there was a blackboard for briefings.
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Taped to the wall above the mantelpiece was a large-scale map of Moon Beach.
production
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Complex technology requires large-scale production , and so the need for huge investments of capital and large organisational structures.
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In fact, the textile industry more than any other made possible relatively large-scale production in a still traditional artisan world.
project
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The large-scale project needs up to fifteen volunteers at a time, distributed amongst five scientists.
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DecentralizedHow can any large-scale project ever get anything done with only ten people?
study
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As yet there have been few large-scale studies of technicians involved in scaling up genetic engineering processes.