mass production

English

Noun

mass production (uncountable)

1. The process of manufacturing products on a large scale.
   • 1964 May, R. K. Evans, “The Ventura—Paxman's high-speed engine”, in Modern Railways, page 328:

     After the war, the invaluable experience gained with mass production of the TP engines saw Davey Paxman in a favourable position to supply such units almost "off the shelf", a facility found to be of great value by oil companies engaged in well-drilling; [...].

   • 2023 April 5, “£35,000 needed to save a Class 317 and create rebuilt '210' DMU”, in RAIL, number 980, page 8:

     They were ruled out as over-engineered and too expensive for mass production, and lost out to Class 141 and '142' railbuses, and then Class 150s.

Synonyms

• flow production

Related terms

• mass-produce

Translations

process of manufacturing products on a large scale

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大量生產／大量生产 (zh) (dàliàng shēngchǎn), 大規模生產／大规模生产 (dàguīmó shēngchǎn)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: massaproductie (nl) f
• Finnish: massatuotanto (fi), suurtuotanto, sarjatuotanto
• German: Massenproduktion (de) f
• Hungarian: tömeggyártás (hu), sorozatgyártás (hu)
• Irish: olltáirgeacht f, olltáirgeadh m
• Italian: produzione di massa (it) f
• Japanese: 大量生産 (ja) (tairyō seisan), 量産 (ja) (ryōsan)
• Maori: whakaputanga ngahue
• Portuguese: produção em massa f
• Russian: ма́ссовое произво́дство n (mássovoje proizvódstvo), пото́чное произво́дство (ru) n (potóčnoje proizvódstvo), сери́йное произво́дство n (seríjnoje proizvódstvo)
• Spanish: producción masiva f, fabricación serial f, producción masificada f, fabricación multitudinaria f
• Swedish: massproduktion (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ма́сове виробни́цтво n (másove vyrobnýctvo)