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bulk English

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bulk Noun

— The bulk of something is the largest part of it. The bulk of the shipment was headed for Toronto. The great bulk of crime has always involved stealing of one kind or another. — Someone or something's bulk is its size or amount, especially if it is large. She took a deep breath, and, enormously grateful for the solid bulk of Leo at her back, she stepped inside. — If you sell something in bulk, it is not individually packaged. I usually buy nuts at the bulk food store. — If you buy something in bulk, you buy large amounts. The store offers discounts for buying in bulk. — A bulk is an item that is moved about like cargo.

bulk Verb

— If something bulks, it appears to be big in size. — If you bulk something, you increase its' size; you expand it.

bulk

— noun (= majority) the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part the majority of his customers prefer it the bulk of the work is finished — verb stick out or up The parcel bulked in the sack — noun (= mass, volume) the property of something that is great in magnitude it is cheaper to buy it in bulk he received a mass of correspondence the volume of exports — noun the property possessed by a large mass — verb (= bulge) cause to bulge or swell outwards

Synonyms bulk synonyms

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bulk English » English

size mass volume dimension magnitude majority extent scale measurement extend scope range quantity measure bulge breadth lot hunch heap gross figure capacity bunch body area widen wholesale whole body whole volumed vastness vast majority tumour tumor tub tidy sum thickness tankage tank substance stature statue solid content solid slew shell capacity scale up ruck quantum quantities

Topics bulk topics

What do people use bulk to talk about?
States Big Thick

Fat person

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    weight bulk
States Quantity All

Most, almost all

Conjugation bulk conjugation

How do you conjugate bulk?

bulk · verb

Examples bulk examples

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Simple sentences

His relatives took it for granted that they would inherit the bulk of his wealth.
He finished the bulk of his work before dinner.
We buy stationery in bulk.

Movie subtitles

They work together to ensure that they win the bulk of the prize money and then divide it evenly.
The bulk will come here.
And thrice his head thus waving up and down. he raised a sigh so piteous and profound as it did seem to shatter all his bulk and end his being.
These are not organic blackberries or granola in bulk.
The bulk of the estate was to go to Diane.
You figure on some losses, but you think that within three nights, you'll have the bulk of your circus across.
A sheer bulk surpassing many million earthly libraries.
In the old will, that which was revoked, were you not to receive the bulk of Mrs. French's estate?
I suggest you formed this opinion because his friendship with Mrs. French cost you the bulk of her estate.
It arrives here in bulk.
In bulk.
The bulk of my force will be made up of prisoners.
We're interested in the bulk-buying of fermentation chemicals.
The bulk of the body seems to be iron and nickel.
Perhaps you've been mislead by the common notion regarding the shape and bulk of state papers.
If you tell me you've blown a few hundred and come up with the bulk, I'll listen.
In the old will, that which was revoked, were you not to receive the bulk of Mrs French's estate? That's so.
I suggest you formed this opinion because his friendship with Mrs French cost you the bulk of her estate.
If your department can establish that it is done illegally, then the bank could institute proceedings to recover the bulk of his holdings.
I figure you Australian thieves are the only thieves who can supply in bulk.
Intelligence does not necessarily require bulk, Mr Scott.
Disappeared. Astonishing that anything of that bulk could move so rapidly.
In summation the bulk of our problems seem to be in the northern areas of the country.
I do not understand why you take the trouble to consume this bulk material to sustain yourselves.
We've had the Pandora Cold Cream account for nine years, and we've always received the bulk of their appropriation.
But still the envious flood kept in my soul. and would not let it forth to find the empty, vast and wandering air. but smothered it within my panting bulk. which almost burst to belch it in the sea.
I suggest you formed this opinion because his friendship with Mrs. French cost you the bulk of her estate. - I've never liked him.
On the morning of the very same day, you heard Mrs. French change her will, - leaving you the bulk of her money. - I didn't!
Buy 'em by the bulk!
If we sit late, I hope we can hear the bulk of the witnesses this afternoon.
Man, now I'm tellin lies to myself looks like, and in bulk!
So, you inherit the house, which is the bulk of the estate.
Here, stand behind this bulk.
Intelligence does not necessarily require bulk, Mr. Scott.
Astonishing that anything of that bulk could move so rapidly.

News and current affairs

He was initially slow in fighting organized crime, because he did not want to alienate the bulk of Milosevic's mafia-infested establishment at once.
For most authors, that would be enough time to earn the bulk of the income that they would ever receive from their writings; after that, the works would be in the public domain.
On the contrary, the bulk of peer-reviewed economic evidence indicates that, up to around 2050-2070, the net global economic impact of rising temperatures is likely to be positive.
With these natural allies seeking to add strategic bulk to their rapidly multiplying ties, Akihito's tour is the most significant visit to India by any foreign leader in recent years.
Whatever traditional benefit remains would not be enough to live on; retirees would be at the mercy of the markets for the bulk of their income.
Ideally - from their point of view - they will bulk up without attracting regulatory scrutiny, i.e., no ex ante limits on their risk-taking activities will be imposed.
UN Security Council Resolution 1564, passed on 18 September 2004, reserves the bulk of its criticism for the government of Sudan.
The bulk of Phelps's current work consists of a new reworking of structuralist theory, in an effort to show how changes in interest rates and asset prices affect the equilibrium unemployment rate over the medium term.
That is why international law requires that the cases of asylum-seekers are examined not in bulk, but one by one.
This could be accomplished by converting the bulk of their sovereign debt into Eurobonds.
As a result, the bulk of investment now will have to come from national policymakers.
With the bulk of its baby boomers retiring in the coming decade, Germany has a valid motive to save.
Europeans should agree to supply the bulk of such a force.
The bulk of the CFA franc money supply comes from trade between France and its African allies.
The condition for success in the American case was that the US raised its own revenue, with federally administered customs houses initially providing the bulk of its receipts.
This is where America's multilateral trade deficit enters the equation, for it has long accounted for the bulk of America's balance-of-payments gap.
This conveniently allows the authorities to control news programming with an iron hand while relegating the bulk of programming to a looser and less labor-intensive monitoring system.
This difference in patterns of structural change accounts for the bulk of the difference in recent growth rates between Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, on the one hand, and Asia, on the other.
The US, where consumption accounts for the bulk of the shortfall in the post-crisis recovery, is a case in point.
UN Security Council Resolution 1564, passed on 18 September 2004, reserves the bulk of its criticism for the government of Sudan. But the UN is not yet prepared to go beyond words.
The bulk of claims for the subsidy come from northern Italy, which is usually considered less prone to tax evasion to begin with.
Nonetheless, at some point, the natural cycles will shift; the oceans will cease to absorb the bulk of the planet's warming; and surface temperatures will begin to climb again.
Finally, it plans to renegotiate Greece's debt with lenders, in the hope of writing off the bulk of its liabilities.
Workers belonging to each caste pursued a wide variety of occupations, although agriculture provided the bulk of employment.
Even if the West and its local allies (the Kurds, the Syrian opposition, Jordan, and other Sunni Arab countries) could agree about who would provide the bulk of ground troops, ISIS has already reshaped its strategy.

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