mass-produce

[ mas-pruh-doos, -dyoos ]
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verb (used with object),mass-pro·duced, mass-pro·duc·ing.
  1. to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.

Origin of mass-produce

1
First recorded in 1920–25

Other words from mass-produce

  • mass-pro·duc·er, noun
  • mass-pro·duc·i·ble, adjective

Words Nearby mass-produce

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How to use mass-produce in a sentence

  • Once scientists figured out how to mass-produce it, the drug saved countless lives, and initiated the age of antibiotics.

    A City at War | Jane Ciabattari | July 26, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • The discovery of a way to mass-produce penicillin has personal resonance for Belfer.

    A City at War | Jane Ciabattari | July 26, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • To make any sort of profit, the winemaker has to buy low-quality grapes in bulk and mass-produce the stuff.

    The Great Wine Cover-up | Keith Wallace | August 18, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • If marketers are so desperate, why not choose to mass-produce celebrities who actually sell the baby pictures of their kids.

  • To mass produce the Converter will take time—factories will have to be tooled up for it, and all that.

    Damned If You Don't | Gordon Randall Garrett
  • James set up, in the starship's memory banks, a sequence to mass-produce instruction tapes and blueprints.

    The Galaxy Primes | Edward Elmer Smith

British Dictionary definitions for mass-produce

mass-produce

verb
  1. (tr) to manufacture (goods) to a standardized pattern on a large scale by means of extensive mechanization and division of labour

Derived forms of mass-produce

  • mass-produced, adjective
  • mass-producer, noun
  • mass production, noun

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