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

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

Had economic consolidation and mass production rendered individualism obsolete?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

The company said this year it had begun mass production of next-generation high-bandwidth memory chips, HBM4, seen as a key component for scaling up the vast data centres needed for AI development.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Kim expects Hyundai Mobis to complete its development of actuators for Atlas humanoid robots within this year before launching mass production.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

For instance, the mass production of bronze tools, which was just beginning in the South American Andes in the centuries before A.D.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond