Synonyms

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

Example Sentences

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The template-driven format resembles the output of content mills that mass-produce made-up clickbait stories, said digital literacy expert Mike Caulfield.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Tesla, led by Elon Musk, overcame “production hell” to mass-produce the Model 3, inspiring GM to target a full EV transition by 2035.

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

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

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

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

That meant the Chinese company could no longer work with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the only chip maker capable of mass-producing the Ascend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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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