ADJECTIVE
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relatively moderate, limited, or small
a small business
a pocket-size country
small-scale plans
a newspaper with a modest circulation -
created or drawn on a small scale
a small-scale model
small-scale maps
How To Use small-scale In A Sentence
- Prior to European settlement (pre-1850), a wide variety of disturbances characterized the region, ranging from frequent small-scale and localized events such as treefall gaps to rare, large-scale events such as stand-replacing fires and epizootic outbreaks. Eastern Cascades forests
- Funes says that "dollarization" and the adoption of the Central American Free Trade Agreement in 2006 have had negative effects such as inflation and unfavorable competition for small-scale farmers but that it is too late to scrap these policies. CounterPunch
- They were all relatively small-scale enterprises. Truman
- These two shows, a few months apart, displayed the tactile and abstract effects she wrings from such small-scale marks.
- Combining the small-scale successes of the various clubs, they hope to make that one event a big success.
- The future use is likely to be a small-scale residential development.
- Some countries have witnessed concentration of capital among agroexporters alongside the marginalization and immiseration of small-scale producers and processors.
- Even our die-hard Communist friends admit to the existence of small-scale scams under the old system.
- With the dissolution of monasteries in 1534 this craft passed from monasteries to farmers where it remained, for centuries, small-scale or artisanal.
- Still, many of the most acclaimed prefabs are small-scale projects by less commercial architects.