large-scale

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   unusually large in scope

   a large-scale attack on AIDS is needed

2. 2
   adj

   constructed or drawn to a big scale

   large-scale maps

3. 3
   adj

   Large in amount, scope or extent.

   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.

4. 4
   adj

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

Etymology

From large + scale.