Small-scale

Definition: Small-scale

Small-scale

Adjective

1. Created or drawn on a small scale; "small-scale maps"; "a small-scale model".

2. Limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Small-scale

Crosswords: Small-scale

Books

• Small-Scale Livestock Farming: A Grass-Based Approach for Health, Sustainability, and Profit (reference)

• Small-Scale Brickmaking (Technical Memorandum, No 6) (reference)

• Small-Scale Oil Extraction from Groundnuts and Copra (reference)

• The New American Cottage: Innovations in Small-Scale Residential Architecture (New American Architecture) (reference)

• The Manual Screw Press for Small-Scale Oil Extraction (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Boats pulled up on the beach at a small-scale fishing port. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A wide variety of fish and shellfish species support a mostly small-scale fisher y, operating near to the coast. Over 40 types of gear are used in the Mediterran ean. Most common type is trawlgear for benthic species; coastal purse seiners for small pelagics; trammel and gillnets for inshore species; and purse seines, long surface gill nets, and longlines are used for large pelagic fish. Credit: Fisheries.

Littoral Fisheries: Coastal species are exploited by small-scale gear (gill nets , trammel nets, bottom longlines and traps). Top: Small scale gear boat. Acitr ezza (Sicily), Italy. Lower left: Landings of small-scale vessel. Gallipoli ( Gulf of Taranto), Italy. Lower right: Trammelnetters. Porto Cesareo (Gulf of Taranto), Italy. Credit: Fisheries.

Small-scale fishing boats at Frenchtown Harbor. Credit: Fisheries.

Part of the small-scale fishing fleet at Frenchtown Harbor. Credit: Fisheries.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

Some researchers have given men with Peyronie's disease vitamin E orally in small-scale studies and have reported improvements. (references)

Strategies to reduce populations of vector ticks through area-wide application of acaricides (chemicals that will kill ticks and mites) and control of tick habitats (e.g., leaf litter and brush) have been effective in small-scale trials. (references)

Business

China has small-scale capacity for PS production. (references)

The majority of service centers are small-scale, low technology operations. (references)

In May and June, the EPR launched small-scale attacks against the military in Guerrero. (references)

Children

Botswana

The Government funded NGO's that provide rehabilitation services and supported small-scale work projects by workers with disabilities. (references)

Burma

While there are several small-scale organizations to assist persons with disabilities, most must rely on their families to provide for their welfare. (references)

Civil Liberties

Turkey

According to Mazlum-DER, during the year 44 teachers lost their jobs for wearing head coverings and there were small-scale protests against the headscarf ban. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

Bulgaria's retail sector is dominated by small-scale shops. (references)

Chad

Most retail businesses are small-scale, proprietary operations. (references)

India

Foreign equity in a small-scale undertaking is permissible up to 24 per cent. (references)

Indigenous People

Suriname

Organizations representing Maroon and Amerindian communities complain that small-scale mining operations, mainly by illegal Brazilian gold miners, dig trenches that cut residents off from their agricultural land and threaten to drive them away from their traditional settlements. (references)

Minorities

Tonga

Later in 2000, the hereditary noble of a district in the western part of Tongatapu announced that Chinese-owned stores were banned from his district, and at approximately the same time, the Ministry of Labor, Commerce, and Industries froze the issuing of new licenses for small-scale retail stores. (references)

Political Economy

Rwanda

Small-scale commercial activities are increasing, but the industrial base remains limited. (references)

Political Rights

Egypt

The EOHR conducted a small-scale monitoring effort, but there was no systematic, large-scale independent monitoring of the elections. (references)

Trade

India

The Director General of Foreign Trade for small-scale industries not covered in the foregoing. (references)

Egypt

A private sector credit guarantee company started operation in 1989 to encourage banks to finance small-scale enterprises. (references)

Women

Congo

They constitute the majority of primary agricultural laborers and small-scale traders and almost exclusively are responsible for child rearing. (references)

Venezuela

The first is the "Women's Bank," a lending institution inaugurated by President Chavez on September 13 that is designed to provide small-scale financing to micro-enterprises run by women. (references)

Worker Rights

Eritrea

Children also work as child-minders, traders, and in small-scale manufacturing. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Bulgarian 

в малък мащаб (petty), дребен (dinky, dwarf, finical, finicking, finicky, insignificant, little, minor, niggling, paltry, peddling, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, puny, pygmy, rabbity, sawed-off, shabby, short, small, small time, trifling, trivial, undersized, unimportant, venial). (various references)

Chinese 

小规模. (various references)

Danish

Pilotprojekter til fordel for kystfiskeri (Pilot projects to assist small-scale coastal fishing), Pilotprojekter til fordel for kystfiskerhustruer (Pilot projects to assist women family members in small-scale coastal fishing communities). (various references)

Dutch

Proefprojecten ten behoeve van vrouwen van vissers uit de kleinschalige kustvisserij (Pilot projects to assist women family members in small-scale coastal fishing communities), Proefprojecten ten behoeve van de kleinschalige kustvisserij (Pilot projects to assist small-scale coastal fishing), Kleinschalige kustvisserij (Local small-scale fishing), Kleinschalige Centrale Opvangeenheid (small-scale reception facilities for asylum seekers), KCO (small-scale reception facilities for asylum seekers). (various references)

Finnish

pienkuluttaja (small-scale consumer), Lähivesikalastusta harjoittavien kalastajien vaimojen hyväksi toteutettavat pilottihankkeet (Pilot projects to assist women family members in small-scale coastal fishing communities), Lähivesikalastuksen hyväksi toteutettavat pilottihankkeet (Pilot projects to assist small-scale coastal fishing). (various references)

French

Projets pilotes en faveur des femmes des pêcheurs de la petite pêche côtière (Pilot projects to assist women family members in small-scale coastal fishing communities), Projets pilotes en faveur de la petite pêche côtière (Pilot projects to assist small-scale coastal fishing), Petite pêche locale (Local small-scale fishing). (various references)

German

kleinangelegt, begrenzt (bounded, confined, confines, delimited, determinate, limited, limits, limmitted, marginal, particular, restricted, terminally). (various references)

Greek 

Πρότυπα προγράμματα υπέρ των γυναικών των αλιέων της μικρής παράκτιας αλιείας (Pilot projects to assist women family members in small-scale coastal fishing communities), Πρότυπα προγράμματα υπέρ της μικρής παράκτιας αλιείας (Pilot projects to assist small-scale coastal fishing). (various references)

Italian

in scala ridotta (miniature, model). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

リチウム爆弾 (car with 1000cc engine, lip, lip cream, lip service, lipreading, lipstick, literacy, literal, literary, literature, lithium bomb, lithograph, Lithuania, litmus, litre, redisplay, reduce, rich, ridge, ripple, rocking motion, small-scale finance). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

リテールバンキング (small-scale finance). (various references)

Korean 

소규모. (various references)

Pig Latin

all-scalesmay.(various references)

Portuguese

Projectos-piloto a favor de pequena pesca costeira (Pilot projects to assist small-scale coastal fishing), Projectos-piloto a favor das mulheres dos pescadores da pequena pesca costeira (Pilot projects to assist women family members in small-scale coastal fishing communities). (various references)

Russian 

ограниченный (blinkered, borne, bound, clannish, confined, cramped, finite, groovy, handicapped, hidebound, illiberal, incapacious, limitary, limited, limited to, meager, meagre, narrow, narrow gauge, narrow minded, narrow-minded, one track, parochial, qualified, restrained, restricted, scant, scanty, small minded), небольшой (small, tiny). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

u sitnoj razmeri. (various references)

Spanish

en pequeña escala (midget). (various references)

Swedish

småskaligt, småskalig. (various references)

Ukrainian

у невеликому масштабі, обмежений (bat-minded, borne, confined, contracted, cramp, cramped, finite, illiberal, insular, limited, local, meager, meagre, narrow, narrow minded, one sided, one track, one-ideaed, one-liner, parochial, pinched, provincial, pure, qualified, restrained, restricted, restrictive, scant, shallow-brained, simple minded, small, straitened, terminate). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: lamellas.

-3 letters: calesas, camases, lamella, mescals.

-4 letters: calesa, callas, camass, camels, llamas, macles, mescal, salals, scales, scalls, smalls, smells.

-5 letters: acmes, alecs, almas, almes, amass, calla, calls, calms, camas, camel, cames, casas, cases, cella, cells, clams, class, laces, lalls, lamas, lames, lases, llama, maces, macle, males, malls, massa, masse, meals, mells, mesas, salal, sales.