mass production
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- noun
- /mæs prəˈdʌkʃən/
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producción en masa
- This is just mass production, like an assembly line in a factory.
- mass production and consumption
- mass production system
- mass production and distribution
As it turns out, going from pretty much ready to mass production ready is a lot of work.
- As it turns out, going from pretty much ready to mass production ready is a lot of work.
- The secret of mass consumption is mass production.
- And because it's an extra step, mass production has kind of squeezed the use of gussets out of our clothes.
- So by relying on imports from the Dominions and trade with the US, the mass production of armaments on a scale never before seen in history was possible.
- And that mass production of food led to over farming of soil, packaging foods to make them last longer.
- Often time when we look at straight size mass production, it's, you know, it does get incrementally longer.
Examples
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Automatic starters, cheaper oil and mass production gave the edge to the gasoline car.
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So by relying on imports from the Dominions and trade with the US, the mass production of armaments on a scale never before seen in history was possible.
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Electric cars, if they start to have a mass production, it will open a lot of new employment opportunities in developing countries.
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We go into mass production in two days.
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These days it's all mass production.
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And part of the mass production idea was never stop the production line, always keep it moving, always keep producing.
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If a crash program is started by 2012, mass production can begin by 2020.
Blog text (32) -
But the X-215A is a reality and only a few years away from mass production.
Fiction book (1995) -
The Industrial Revolution inaugurated mass production and mass consumption.
Academic text (2008) -
The new Jaipur knee will be ready for mass production later this year.
Antonyms
How Large
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the production of large quantities' is directly and compositionally derived from 'mass' (large quantity) + 'production' (manufacturing), following a common noun-noun compounding pattern. This construction is cross-linguistically common (e.g. producción en masa, production de masse) and therefore a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Mass production comes from the image of old factories where a mass or large group of parts moved along an assembly line, and production was the repeated making of the same item by workers or machines. That's why the phrase means 'making large numbers of the same product quickly'.