large-scale

adj 2

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ADJ.

amphibious, economic, expensive, profitable, trained

VERB + LARGE-SCALE

bridges, fight, launch, lead, make, need, preventing, started

LARGE-SCALE + NOUN

aloud, assault, construction, currents, diesel, infrastructure, loss, military

PREP.

in, in, into, on, with, with

ADV.

only, usually

Definitions

adj

Large in amount, scope or extent.

Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all.

The production of railway timetables is a large-scale and expensive operation.

Of a map or image, drawn large so as to show detail.

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Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all.

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The production of railway timetables is a large-scale and expensive operation.

Wiktionary

The last remaining mammoth populations lived on Wrangel Island, a small island in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia, where large-scale movement would not have been possible.

Wiktionary

Large-scale road construction began.

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Large-scale surface currents are already known to exist, and major currents below the ocean surface, too, are being found.

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Tatoeba is a mini-LibriVox, it just needs to be written before the large-scale reading aloud would start.

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