industrial scale

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industrial scale (plural industrial scales)

  1. The large size or amount characteristic of industrial processes.
  2. (colloquial, often attributive) Largeness.
    • 2022 July 7, Mark Landler, Megan Specia, Stephen Castle, quoting Keir Starmer, “Boris Johnson Will Resign as His Party’s Leader”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      “He was always unfit for office. He has been responsible for lies, scandal and fraud on an industrial scale,” Mr. Starmer wrote in a letter posted to his Twitter account.

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