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

Requirements for construction differ greatly from town to town and state to state, making mass production tricky.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026

What matters is the mass production of cheap and lethal projectiles that are adapted in real time, not long-term investment in big and vulnerable platforms that become outdated fast.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in 2023 that the country should achieve mass production of humanoid robots by 2025 and make them “an important new engine of economic growth” by 2027.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

This undermined efficiency, and Ben Franklin’s maxim that “time is money External link” is especially true with the small margins of mass production.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

If he had put out fifty of them it would have been a fortune, but Lee was a humble man who didn’t care for mass production.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck