large-scale

• large scale

From large +‎ scale.

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large-scale (comparative larger-scale, superlative largest-scale)

1. Large in amount, scope or extent.
   • 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86:

     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.

   • 1964 March, “Timetable confusion”, in Modern Railways, page 145:

     The production of railway timetables is a large-scale and expensive operation.

   • 2021 August 12, Katie Hunt, “Mammoths were the original ‘ice road truckers,’ traveling vast distances across the Arctic”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The last remaining mammoth populations lived on Wrangel Island, a small island in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia, where large-scale movement would not have been possible.

2. (of a map or image) Drawn large so as to show detail.

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