mass-produce

American

[mas-pruh-doos, -dyoos] / ˈmæs prəˈdus, -ˈdjus /

verb (used with object)

mass-produced, mass-producing

to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.

mass-produce British

verb

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of mass-produce

First recorded in 1920–25

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As for robots, Tesla recently stopped selling the Model S and Model X vehicles to convert the Fremont, California, manufacturing capacity into a facility to mass-produce robots.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Musk says he slogged through “production hell” in 2017 and nearly ran out of money as Tesla struggled to mass-produce its new Model 3 sedan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

For example, in Austin, Texas, I visited the team at Aalo Atomics, a startup aiming to mass-produce SMRs in a factory setting.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 24, 2025

Musk says Tesla’s edge is that it has the engineering capability to build limbs, AI to run the brains, and the manufacturing know-how to mass-produce the bots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

We live in societies that mass-produce facts: packages are marked with weights, road signs tell you distances and, in some countries, the populations of the towns you are passing through.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

To his trained ear, Chiminyo also says the different artists' tracks sound near identical, reason enough to conclude the compositions have been synthetically mass-produced.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The few carousel companies that survived the Depression largely did so by switching to a cheaper, mass-produced product, such as transitioning from wood to aluminum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

“Someone is not trying to have a mass-produced item to tap and pay,” he told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026

Where the company was once the best-known name in media rip-offs, it now leaves behind only mass-produced plastic and fuzzy memories.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

Founded in 1948, it was, in many ways, meant to be the paragon of suburban life, with mass-produced houses and cookie-cutter yards.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

While Europe and the U.S. first pioneered autonomous vehicles, China took a lead in mass-producing cheap aerial drones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

It turned out that mass-producing instant coffee gave the company little insight into how to run an artisanal coffee shop.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

And across the country, organizers like Bridges are mass-producing them for cheap at home.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2026

Chef Busato acknowledges that it isn't practical to seek artisanal standards if you're mass-producing baked goods, and so big players will have to rely on frozen dough.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025

They also knew that, before mass-producing any cells, they’d need to find a new way to ship them.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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