massive scale

collocation in English

meaningsofmassiveandscale

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massive
adjective
uk
/ˈmæs.ɪv/us
/ˈmæs.ɪv/
very large in size, amount, ...
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scale
noun
uk
/skeɪl/us
/skeɪl/
a set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to measure or compare the level ...
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(Definition ofmassiveandscalefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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With a financial system based on municipal rents, the possibility of decent maintenance and upkeep was defeated by themassivescaleof non-payment.
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What first of all attracts notice is the work'smassivescaleand comprehensive coverage.
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Existing policies, rules, and institutions foreseeably give rise to deprivations on amassivescale.
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Scholars once believed that privatization had dispossessed the peasantry on amassivescale(' pauperization '), but this view is no longer widely accepted.
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However, defeasible principles are introduced conservatively, and preferential knowledge is not used on amassivescale.
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A long-term goal of the project is the practical implementation of gene-based medicine to public health on amassivescale.
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But this in turn means that if the country were to export primary products, there would be an implicit subsidy on these exports, possibly on amassivescale.
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Major forest products like timber, sandalwood, firewood and other minor forest produce like bamboo and cane, fibres and flosses have been extracted on a verymassivescale.
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Poor design and deficient engineering of production systems were held to have given rise to waste, often on amassivescale.
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First, in most countries manufacturing output had collapsed or substantially decreased in early transition, and eventually leveled in later years, thereby reducing pollution levels by a correspondingmassivescaleeffect.
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They have provided evidence thatmassivescaleexperiments can be avoided by the judicious use of smaller-scale targeted experiments aimed at developing and validating appropriate computer models.
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Secondly, we are paving the way for new investment in energy and energy-related industries on amassivescale.
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It is highly capital-intensive and in need of new equipment on amassivescale.
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It is hardly surprising that those human tragedies on amassivescalehave cast a long shadow over the market.
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The law would be flouted on amassivescaleand its enforcability would become even more impossible.
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There has undoubtedly been cheating on amassivescale.
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It has to be done, without hesitation and without delay, and on amassivescale.
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Their practice is of intervention on amassivescalewith the workings of the body either with scalpels or with drugs.
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This is, after all, how we can avoid being faced again with faits accomplis in a year's time and being indignant on amassivescale.
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The sums involved amount to maladministration on amassivescale.
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