large-scale
Adjective
Large in amount, scope or extent.
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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.
The production of railway timetables is a large-scale and expensive operation.
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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.
Of a map or image, drawn large so as to show detail.
Adjective
unusually large in scope
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a large-scale attack on AIDS is needed
constructed or drawn to a big scale
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large-scale maps
Word forms
larger-scalelargest-scalelarge scale