bulknoun
uk/bʌlk/us/bʌlk/[ C usually singular ] something or someone that is very large:
She eased her large bulk out of the chair.
[ U ] large size or mass:
It was a document of surprising bulk.
in bulk
C1 in large amounts:
The office buys paper in bulk to keep down costs.
the bulk of sth
C1 most of something:
In fact, the bulk of the book is taken up with criticizing other works.
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Masses and large amounts of things
- accumulation
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- backlog
- battery
- boatload
- bolus
- clot
- deluge
- fund
- lashing
- panoply
- plethora
- predominance
- preponderance
- profusion
- sheet
- shower
- thousand
- tidal wave
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