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Large-scale   /lɑrdʒ-skeɪl/   Listen
adjective
large-scale  adj.  
1.
Large in area, scope or degree; as, a large-scale attack on AIDS is needed.
Synonyms: extensive, wide-ranging.
2.
Constructed or drawn to a big scale (4); as, large-scale maps. See 3rd scale, n., sense 4.
3.
Widespread; applying to all or most members of a category or group.
Synonyms: mass.





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"Large-scale" Quotes from Famous Books



... to look right across Fylingdales Moor to the sea beyond, a soft haze of pearly blue over the hard, rugged outline of the ling. Away towards the north, too, the landscape for many miles is limited only by the same horizon of sea, so that we seem to be looking at a section of a very large-scale contour map of England. Below us on the western side runs the Mirk Esk, draining the heights upon which we stand as well as Egton High Moor and Wheeldale Moor. The confluence with the Esk at Grosmont is lost in a haze of smoke and a confusion of roofs and railway lines; ...
— Yorkshire Painted And Described • Gordon Home
... Large-scale housing is primarily for married people with growing families. Eventually the number of young people is much greater than the number of adults. There is a pronounced difference between a settlement of mushroom growth and one that has ...
— Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents - The Mazengarb Report (1954) • Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.
... Zuni was surveyed by the writer in the autumn of 1881 with a view to procuring the necessary data for the construction of a large-scale model of this pueblo. For this reason the work afforded a record of external ...
— Eighth Annual Report • Various
... work around his chin, he decided that it actually was practical. Ideas, in fact, were almost the only kind of import worth bringing from Sol to Alpha Centauri. Large-scale shipments of necessities were handled by the Federated Governments. To carry even precious or power metals to Earth or to return with any type of manufactured luxury was simply too expensive in ...
— Satellite System • Horace Brown Fyfe
... nation would face in attempting to predict the results of a nuclear war. Uncertainty is one of the major conclusions in our studies, as the haphazard and unpredicted derivation of many of our discoveries emphasizes. Moreover, it now appears that a massive attack with many large-scale nuclear detonations could cause such widespread and long-lasting environmental damage that the aggressor country might suffer serious physiological, economic, and environmental effects even without a nuclear ...
— Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives • United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency


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