mass audience

collocation in English

meaningsofmassandaudience

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mass
adjective[before noun]
uk
/mæs/us
/mæs/
having an effect on or involving a large number of people or forming a ...
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audience
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɔː.di.əns/us
/ˈɑː.di.əns/
the group of people together in one place to watch or listen to a play, film, someone ...
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(Definition ofmassandaudiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmass audience

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This is partly because, as public documents issued for amassaudience, they are written in a very straightforward way.
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What was the kind ofmassaudiencethat these commentaries hoped might disappear?
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From this perspective, the electroacoustic community is split between the high-art avant-garde of select institutions and the commercial low-art ofmassaudience.
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When critics voice their opinion to amassaudience, what is usually a matter of individual taste becomes a matter of morality.
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Cooper points out that vernacular prayers and official homilies were a form of propaganda aimed at amassaudience.
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This might have been the last straw for a classical tradition, whose social and intellectual capital andmassaudiencehad by now long been lost to popular culture.
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Everybody there is conscious of the prevailing presence through the microphones and television cameras of the great unseen,massaudience.
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I believe that a second commercial channel, if it were like the present one, dependent on attracting amassaudience, would merely be repetitive.
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To start with, the introduction of commercial television itself—whatever its rights and wrongs—was bound to concentrate more and more attention on themassaudience.
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So, because of technological and historic change, we now have a system for financing films that does not recognise the nature of themassaudience.
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Themassaudiencewatches films not in cinemas but on television.
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We cannot allow these trials on television before amassaudiencebefore the person himself has had a chance to appear in court.
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It is an established and major avenue for information and education for amassaudience.
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But there is some justification for saying—and we cannot dismiss this—that there has been an undue preponderance ofmassaudienceprogrammes at peak-viewing hours.
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They are interested in getting the best results for the money spent for advertisements, and that means that they must pursue themassaudience.
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I am a little uncertain whether that type of programme would be appropriate for amassaudienceon a major network.
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The fundamental idea of the levy was to channel some of the money paid by themassaudiencewatching films into film production.
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They must be geared to suit the greatmassaudienceto whom advertisements for detergents are addressed.
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