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mass-produce

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

verb (used with object)

mass-produced, mass-producing
  1. to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.


mass-produce British  

verb

  1. (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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What if the United States could mass-produce its way out of a housing crisis?

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2026

He joined Intel in the 1980s and contributed to the company’s golden era, helping build Intel’s chip factories and mass-produce Intel’s 486 microprocessor.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 27, 2025

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

This makes it possible to mass-produce it cheaply.

From Science Daily Oct. 19, 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

And they can do it cheaper than the West, by using mass-produced Chinese parts.

From BBC Aug. 24, 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

At the time the viability of electric vehicles as a large market was a pipedream and the Prius was the world's first mass-produced petrol and electric hybrid.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

America's factories efficiently mass-produced military weapons, planes, tanks, cars, and other machinery with fewer workers and at a lower cost.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

Engineers would question the feasibility of mass-producing such a design.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

Elon Musk’s EV recently ceased production External link of the Model S and X. Tesla is converting that capacity in Fremont, Calif., to a line for mass-producing the humanoid robot, Optimus.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 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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