mass production

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noun
  1. the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.

Origin of mass production

1
First recorded in 1915–20

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How to use mass production in a sentence

  • The history of mass-production methods in the making of bibliographies has not yet been written.

  • It is not entirely clear whether Ersch himself had already adopted something like mass-production methods.

  • And in no time, penicillin was in mass production, saving untold thousands of lives.

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  • That I am interested in the mass production of fabricated houses.

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  • We must reorganize the repairing of our rolling-stock, on the basis of the mass production of spare parts.

Cultural definitions for mass production

mass production

The manufacture of goods in large quantities by machinery and by use of techniques such as the assembly line and division of labor.

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