large-scale

comparative larger-scale · superlative largest-scale · alternative large scale

1. Large in amount, scope or extent.

   The production of railway timetables is a large-scale and expensive operation.

   1964 March 28, “Timetable confusion”, in Modern Railways, page 145

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   Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all.

   1961 February 28, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86

   The last remaining mammoth populations lived on Wrangel Island, a small island in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia, where large-scale movement would not have been possible.

   2021 August 12, Katie Hunt, “Mammoths were the original ‘ice road truckers,’ traveling vast distances across the Arctic”, in CNN

2. cartographyOf a map or image, drawn large so as to show detail.