weapons of mass destruction
a mass murderer
mass starvation
Opposition groups plan to stage mass demonstrations all over the country.
- During times of mass unemployment, there's a pool of cheap labour for employers to draw from.
- There were mass deportations in the 1930s, when thousands of people were forced to leave the country.
- There have been mass desertions from the party in recent months.
- There has been a mass exodus of workers from the villages to the towns.
- The regime tried to silence dissent with a programme of mass murder.
mass
noun
uk
/mæs/ us
/mæs/mass noun (LARGE AMOUNT)
B2 [ S ]
masses [ plural ] UK informal
B2
a lot:
[ + to infinitive ] I've got masses to do at the weekend.
- Her daughter's hair is a mass of wonderful red corkscrew curls.
- She was disappointed to see her essay returned with a mass of corrections in red ink.
- The liquid suddenly solidifies into a gelatinous mass.
- Short-grain rice turns into a soft glutinous mass when cooked.
- A seething mass of children crowded around the tables.
mass noun (SOLID LUMP)
mass noun (ORDINARY PEOPLE)
mass noun (RELIGIOUS CEREMONY )
- acquaintance
- ayup
- bump into someone
- conclave
- counter-rally
- cross someone's path/cross paths with someone idiom
- fish
- make yourself known idiom
- meeting
- muster point
- open house
- paths cross idiom
- pay your respects idiom
- play date
- power breakfast
- power lunch
- re-encounter
- re-meet
- rendezvous
- respect
