mass production

American  

noun

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

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mass production Cultural  

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of mass production

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

It recently stopped mass production of one-cent coins, but there will be collectible versions next year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Rather than force it into mass production, let it continue to be the self-guided couture brand it is.

From Los Angeles Times

Béchard offers a very long historical perspective of this phenomenon, starting with Gutenberg, whose invention of movable type — “the ChatGPT of the 1450s,” he asserts — ushered in “the mass production of cheap printed material.”

From Los Angeles Times

Creating a custom-built chip is currently an expensive and manual process that involves everything from designing its architecture to testing and preparing it for mass production, and typically takes two to three years to complete.

From The Wall Street Journal

A worker in white gloves inspects the propellers of a boxy two-seater aircraft fresh off the assembly line at a Chinese factory trialling the mass production of flying cars.

From Barron's