mass-produce

verb

mass-pro·​duce ˌmas-prə-ˈdüs How to pronounce mass-produce (audio)
-ˈdyüs
mass-produced; mass-producing; mass-produces

transitive verb

: to produce in quantity usually by machinery

Examples of mass-produce in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Ice used to be chipped off natural sources like glaciers, but that changed with the advent of machines able to mass-produce for bars and restaurants, or to manufacture the bags of cubes that lurk in people’s freezers. Laura Paddison, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024 While jewels that are mass-produced by global luxury brands are as easy to find and purchase as McDonald’s hamburgers, Cultus Artem’s one-of-a-kind and limited edition jewels give humans a more fundamental form of luxury, one that involves personal care, technical mastery and rarity. Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 The Biden administration will give $1.5 billion to help build a vast new computer-chip factory in New York state as part of an effort to strengthen the country’s ability to mass-produce the brains of modern consumer and military electronics. Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2024 Jackson also suggests—as the keenest observers of American life never fail to do—that the white world might be even more mass-produced and lacking in originality by dint of its privilege. Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024 Stellantis, which owns Jeep, Chrysler, and Dodge, is committed to mass-producing air taxis for Archer Aviation. Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 9 Jan. 2024 Samsung started mass-producing transparent LCDs in 2011. Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2024 According to Nature, the synthetic polar bear fur is far from ready to be mass-produced, but the research team has high hopes for the future. Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024 The path ahead of her is steep: declining student enrollment; incoming students who, mass-produced by California’s teacher-union-run K–12 system, are woefully unprepared for college; and an ongoing fraud scandal in which the college system has lost more than half a billion dollars. Will Swaim, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

back-formation from mass production

First Known Use

1923, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mass-produce was in 1923

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Cite this Entry

“Mass-produce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mass-produce. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

mass-produce

verb
mass-pro·​duce
ˌmas-prə-ˈd(y)üs
: to produce in quantity usually by machinery
mass production noun
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