large-scale

Definition

Large in amount, scope or extent.

Etymology

From large + scale.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "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."