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Tech companies should not therefore look to Big Corps who just hire large amounts of unskilled labor.

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Quick take

a garment size for a large person

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of large gathered in one view.

noun

a garment size for a large person

adjective

above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"

adjective

fairly large or important in effect; influential; "played a large role in the negotiations"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for large.

noun

a garment size for a large person

adjective

fairly large or important in effect; influential; "played a large role in the negotiations"

adjective

ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

See also: bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid

adjective

generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies"

adjective

conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen"

adjective

having broad power and range and scope; "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"

adjective

in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child"

adverb

at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark)

adverb

with the wind abaft the beam; "a ship sailing large"

adverb

in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening"

Example sentences

Tech companies should not therefore look to Big Corps who just hire large amounts of unskilled labor.

I also worked for other large companies, like, for instance, Microsoft.

Given the large amount of password reuse and poor password choices it is not improbable that this is the complete password file.

However, the fire did not start spontaneously - it was caused by the driver hitting a large piece of metal debris in the road.

"Hachette failed to come to mutually agreeable terms with their largest retail partner by dollar and unit volume.

Our largest competitor, run by Karl Denninger, did us a continuing series of favors by pissing off their customers.

There are a range of opinions so I don't want to overgeneralize but there are a large number of people here that seem to almost despise Stallman and the FSF.

Every large city center is equipped with camera's with powerful microphones.

I think that was a good thing because it established the principle that joining an organization does not absolve you from higher duties towards your fellow citizens or humanity at large.

From what I gather, such a large shift in focus and investment was a unprecedented in Google before Google+.I think Google is a great company, I have a super high opinion of the people that I met there.

It would be more efficient to pay attention to fundamental value than momentary fluctuations if they weren't guaranteed to make large profits on the momentary fluctuations.

I remember reading this published insight[1] from Marissa Mayer a few months ago:Burnout is caused by resentmentWhich sounded amazing, until this guy who dated a neuroscientist commented[2]:No. Burnout is caused when you repeatedly make large amounts of sacrifice and or effort into high-risk problems that fail.

But other large regional ISPs pretty quickly learned not to set fire to their customer base, and, by the end, I think our customer service was pretty much at par for the whole area; we were no longer truly different based on support.