mass-produce

[mas-pruh-doos, -dyoos]

verb (used with object)

mass-produced, mass-producing 

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

mass-produce

verb

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

Other Word Forms

• mass-producer noun
• mass-produced adjective
• mass production noun
• mass-producible adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mass-produce¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

These donor-derived cells could be mass-produced and stored for rapid use.

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The rituals of punishing those with the wrong allegiance now found expression in the mass-produced revolver and later in the automatic rifle.

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“These policy changes, they are forcing the sellers to choose between absorbing unsustainable costs or losing customers to cheaper, mass-produced alternatives. It’s really undermining a whole sector of women-owned businesses and creatives.”

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Since winning the competition, he has avoided convenience stores; just two weeks after that episode aired, CU released a mass-produced version of his tiramisu, with Kwon’s face on the packaging.

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“These architects were having really prescient conversations really early, at a time when architecture at the midcentury was still obsessed with replicating forms in a mass-produced context,” Piscitelli says.

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Related Words

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• complete 
• construct 
• create 
• fabricate 
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