in large quantities

1. 1.

   on a large scale without careful discrimination

   “I buy food wholesale”

   Synonymswholesale

Questions about in large quantities

What does in large quantities mean?

in large quantities means "on a large scale without careful discrimination".

What is another word for in large quantities?

Close synonyms include wholesale. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in large quantities a common word?

in large quantities is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.