large-scale enterprise

collocation in English

meaningsoflarge-scaleandenterprise

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large-scale
adjective
uk
/ˌlɑːdʒˈskeɪl/us
/ˌlɑːrdʒˈskeɪl/
involving many people or things, or happening over a ...
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enterprise
noun
uk
/ˈen.tə.praɪz/us
/ˈen.t̬ɚ.praɪz/
an organization, especially a business, or a difficult and important plan, especially one that will ...
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(Definition oflarge-scaleandenterprisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thus originated the putting-out system, the first capitalistic, albeit decentralized,large-scaleenterprise.
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If money is wanted forlarge-scaleenterprisethere exist the issuing houses.
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If there has to belarge-scaleenterpriseit must be a mixture of both public and private activity.
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This is alarge-scaleenterprisewhich later may be profitable.
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That is the kind of risk which may befall anybody who conducts alarge-scaleenterpriseand it is not exclusively confined to shipping.
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In addition to that, of course, organisation must secure the maximum economy from production by large-scale units, while avoiding the unquestionable dangers oflarge-scaleenterprise.
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To reach this goal, however – as with any otherlarge-scaleenterprise– money is needed.
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If alarge-scaleenterprisein another industry is not efficient and customer-friendly, it is driven out of business.
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How do we operate alarge-scaleenterpriseand maintain the public service principle and, at the same time, introduce the element of competition?
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All kinds of props have always had to be afforded for a very long time to anylarge-scaleenterprise.
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In that sense of courselarge-scaleenterprisewill be involved and the existing financial institutions have a major part to play.
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There was nothing to stop it in the old days, but the road haulage industry is not essentially the sort of industry which lends itself to stoplarge-scaleenterprise.
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Of course, this is a verylarge-scaleenterpriseand an enterprise which is inevitably labouring under certain inherited disadvantages, some of which have been referred to this evening.
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Many were returned to ranchland while irrigation farming became alarge-scaleenterprisein other areas.
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The sector is being transformed by commercialization at the small, medium andlarge-scaleenterpriselevels.
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Chandler began looking atlarge-scaleenterprisein the early 1960s.
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Very often the argument is about who should own these large-scale enterprises—and here we are talking about something which is very large-scale.
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