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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Produced in large quantity, often by automated or assembly-line techniques.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mass-produce.
  • adjective produced by mass production

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  • adjective produced in quantity often by assembly-line techniques

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Examples

  • Also, the term “flash tattoo” goes back to at least 1977, when it referred to mass-produced tattoo templates, like the classic heart and snake designs.

    Bogus to Bubbly Scott Westerfeld 2008

  • Also, the term “flash tattoo” goes back to at least 1977, when it referred to mass-produced tattoo templates, like the classic heart and snake designs.

    Bogus to Bubbly Scott Westerfeld 2008

  • The era of mass-produced cars launched parking and STOP, among other devices of vehicular English that would eventually be embraced by automobilists virtually everywhere.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • The era of mass-produced cars launched parking and STOP, among other devices of vehicular English that would eventually be embraced by automobilists virtually everywhere.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Because the mass-produced version of the automaton, so deeply embedded in Western mythologies of man mistaking himself for something more, usually comes with company.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • And mass-produced T-shirts, bearing messages for all to wear and many to read, will always be partly indebted to those ancient tradesmen plying the coasts of the Mediterranean.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • New, mass-produced goods introduced luxuries to common people.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Because the mass-produced version of the automaton, so deeply embedded in Western mythologies of man mistaking himself for something more, usually comes with company.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • And mass-produced T-shirts, bearing messages for all to wear and many to read, will always be partly indebted to those ancient tradesmen plying the coasts of the Mediterranean.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • But the Germans were obsessed with the belief that a mass-produced U.S. Chrysler or Dodge had to be much cheaper to produce than an equivalent Mercedes, and so every bit of customer-perceptible "worth" and "goodness" was stripped out, with disastrous consequences.

    Life Lessons From the Car Guy Bob Lutz 2011

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