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largely S3 W2 /ˈlɑːdʒli $ ˈlɑːr-/ adverb
[Word Family: noun: enlargement, enlarger; adjective: large, largish; verb: enlarge; adverb: largely]
mostly or mainly:
  ▪ The state of Nevada is largely desert.
  ▪ It had been a tiring day, largely because of all the tedious waiting.
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THESAURUS
in general used when saying that something is usually true in most situations, or about most people or things :
  ▪ In general, temporary jobs are less well-paid.
  ▪ In general, the bigger a company becomes, the harder it is to maintain customer satisfaction.
generally another way of saying ‘in general’, which is often used before a verb. Generally can also be used to say that most people have a particular opinion :
  ▪ Women generally live longer than men.
  ▪ Newton is generally regarded as the father of modern science.
generally speaking/as a rule other ways of saying ‘in general’ :
  ▪ Generally speaking, large breeds of dog are becoming less popular.
  ▪ He’s a singer who doesn’t do interviews, as a rule.
  ▪ The graduates are, generally speaking, a confident and articulate group of young people.
mostly/mainly/largely used when saying that something is true about most people or things, or about most of something. Largely is slightly more formal than mostly or mainly :
  ▪ The disease mainly affects women.
  ▪ Their attempts were largely unsuccessful.
  ▪ The students were mostly French and German, but there were a few Japanese students too.
for the most part used when saying that something is true in most cases, but not in every case :
  ▪ These problems have for the most part been resolved.
  ▪ For the most part, the gangs were made up of boys aged between 11 and 16.
by and large/on the whole used for saying that something is true in most ways or in most cases :
  ▪ The project was, by and large, a success.
  ▪ On the whole, people were very friendly.

adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
consist mainly/largely/primarily of sb/sth
The audience consisted mainly of teenagers.
due largely to
The restaurant’s success was due largely to its new manager.
highly/purely/largely speculative
a purely speculative theory about life on other planets
largely symbolic
The vote was largely symbolic.
largely unaware
The public was largely unaware of the security measures.
largely unsuccessful
The advertising campaign has been largely unsuccessful.
largely/totally/completely etc irrelevant
His age is completely irrelevant if he can do the job.
partly/largely/entirely etc to blame
Television is partly to blame.
virtually/fairly/largely meaningless
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
dependent
The force of this affirmation, however, is largely dependent upon the continuous union of man and nature in the Over-Soul.
Maturation studies, based on geochemical analysis, demonstrate that gas-generative maturity is largely dependent on Jurassic burial.
Huge growth in the service sector is largely dependent on people and not machines.
Again the permeability is largely dependent upon sediment sorting and the presence of cements, or authigenic growths in the pore throats.
This, however, is highly speculative and largely dependent on a perpetual bull market.
Selection of patients for treatment is largely dependent upon referral from a district centre.
Even at the best companies, family friendliness is often episodic, largely dependent on relationships with an immediate supervisor.
due
The remainder were largely due to sewage, industrial pollution or oil spillages.
That was largely due to the centralized organization mandated for all Air Force wings-and its damaging results.
Global warming is largely due to the loading of the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.
In my view, this is largely due to the fact that he saw purpose very much in terms of particular design.
Officials said the increase was largely due to extra holidays abroad encouraged by the favourable exchange rate of sterling.
Thus, present-day surface relief is largely due to movements that occurred during and since the Tertiary Period.
The improved forecast is largely due to lower projected costs for Medicare and Medicaid and welfare reform.
irrelevant
The identity of the genitor in such cases is largely irrelevant.
The comfort, or lack of it, at training camp is largely irrelevant.
Where obligation is the key, policy is largely irrelevant.
The precise timing of this process is largely irrelevant.
By the late 1980s, debates surrounding the rate question became largely irrelevant.
If films have little peripheral information in them then it may be that memory for such information is largely irrelevant.
From the child's viewpoint arguments over management are largely irrelevant.
Men are now recruited into a national labour pool and their home base is largely irrelevant to where they take ships.
responsible
The apparent movement of both the lion and the Cupids along an imaginary, oblique line is largely responsible for this effect.
Reagan, with his extraordinary knack for bringing people together, was largely responsible for this.
As this portrait indicates, Margaret Massingberd was largely responsible for creating much of the garden areas as they still exist today.
The government said the change to chain weights was largely responsible for the higher estimate.
A grand little chap called Willie Workman was largely responsible.
By all accounts, technology is largely responsible for fueling the self-employment trend among the disabled.
The canal engineer William Jessop was largely responsible for this pioneering work which had been in prospect ever since the Stuart period.
The logical result of such thinking is that parents feel largely responsible when things go wrong.
symbolic
The government has made minor cuts on welfare and some changes of a largely symbolic nature.
In fact, the measure has so many exceptions that some Republicans said its value is largely symbolic.
But to describe the bill as largely symbolic is not to diminish its importance.
The registry is largely symbolic and confers none of the legal rights and obligations of marriage.
Because Westminster retains responsibility for security, the vote was largely symbolic.
unknown
Although largely unknown in Britain, Lafaille has an impressive rock climbing curriculum vitae.
But on the national level they are novices, limited specialists or largely unknown quantities.
He possesses non-physical properties and energies that are still largely unknown and uncharted by traditional science.
Rick Lazio, 42, a moderate from Long Island who is largely unknown statewide but carries little obvious baggage.
He was largely unknown to football when last June he was introduced to Edwards, the chairman and majority shareholder of United.
Tributes were largely unknown to Ford's injected Cologne V6, but it is a worthy enough trooper.
Derrick Smith, remains largely unknown even on this Marine Corps base where he is stationed.
VERB
based
Resistance, ill-organized, ill-informed and largely based on non-quantifiable attachment to place, has little effect.
But he conceded that it was a business based largely on commission.
The Prima Pasta operation is based largely within the radius of the M25.
Louis, Kerry Collins of Carolina is the choice, based largely on what he did against the 49ers last season.
This practice is based largely on the belief that intravenous heparin increases coronary artery patency rates.
Smith ties her transformation to a training program developed by de Bruin and based largely on track-and-field principles.
The theory of housing classes is based largely on subdivisions within these two main groups.
He argued that the international monetary system, based largely on the dollar, contained certain inherent contradictions.
confine
At a local level, Gloucester's changes were largely confined to filling gaps left by the removal of the Woodvilles.
Until now it had been thought that the problem was largely confined to Devon and Cornwall.
Polls suggest that cultural snobbery is largely confined to intellectuals.
The single-subject academic course is largely confined to the universities, reflecting their traditions of specialized scholarship and their stronger research orientation.
These institutions were concerned mainly with gymnastics and confined largely to women until after the Second World War.
Prior to 1914 divorce was largely confined to the middle and upper classes.
Most trade unionists had been indifferent to any political theory beyond an instinctive syndicalism which was itself largely confined to industrial disputes.
A second advantage of the approach is that it is largely confined to observable empirical phenomena.
consist
They are about 8 microns in diameter and probably consist largely of chlorides, that is, of compounds containing chlorine.
Many of the pills and capsules which are sold to slimmers as appetite suppressants consist largely of methyl cellulose.
The diet of the red kite seems to consist largely of carrion and some birds.
A child's education may consist largely of the mastery of traditional skills to be done in a traditional way.
Miscellaneous assets largely consist of payments owed but not yet received from other banks.
For example, a site may consist largely of a number of postholes, all dating to the Neolithic period.
depend
On the degree of evaporation or reduction to which the tomatoes are subjected the flavour of the sauce very largely depends.
This one could depend largely on which Louisville shows up and whether Rutland can show up at all.
This depends largely on the quarantine situation.
The identification of a metamorphic rock depends largely on recognition of foliation and other textures.
Their development as a popular force largely depends on the musical direction they follow.
The differences in opinion depend largely on where economists look for evidence.
The response to this depends largely on your point of view.
The number of education administrators employed depends largely on State and local expenditures for education.
determine
This will be largely determined by whether you are right- or left-handed.
What he makes of this inheritance largely determines his place in history.
The progression is determined largely not by time sequence, but by other connections.
The greatest influence was, of course, the aptitude the student brought to school-something. determined largely by family background.
Choice of an expansion card, with a particular processor, will be determined largely by intended application for the device.
Invasion and metastasis largely determine the clinical course of colorectal carcinomas.
Thus, what was viewed as acceptable was determined largely by the centres' main client group - elderly disabled people.
On the one hand, there are those who have argued that this variation is largely determined by inherited potential.
ignore
She would rage at the boys; they largely ignored her.
Forbes was largely ignored until he rose in the polls.
It seemed that our genuine concerns and grievances were largely ignored and we were dismissed as being out of date and out of touch.
The Dayton agreement already guarantees refugees the right to return home, but the provision has been largely ignored.
The debate on the role of the state has largely ignored the fact that state means more than government.
The great scholars also are largely ignored for their craft skills and precise goals in scholarship.
Most of these effects are simply curiosities for the network engineer and are largely ignored by the majority of designers.
The federal army in the South, in keeping with the 1877 Compromise, largely ignored instances of racial violence.
remain
A modern police force was established in the 1860s, but until 1906 it remained largely confined to urban areas.
But as an institution, Congress remains largely detached from foreign affairs.
And it did so in a way that allowed the traditional culture to remain largely intact.
Significantly, in certain cultural enclaves women remain largely unaffected by the work-family conflict.
The birds are still around, but remain largely aloof in the bushes.
Derrick Smith, remains largely unknown even on this Marine Corps base where he is stationed.
This comparison is possible because the list size remained largely unchanged over the two year study.
A component with a small value for D remains largely adsorbed on the stationary phase.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Most of the cities depend largely on hydroelectric power.
Our church's congregation is largely made up of young families with children.

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