mass action

noun

1

: action involving masses of people

a period of mass action in which the individual has often felt lost

—F. E. Hill

by one single mass action, to improve the case of workers on a scale never attempted

—F. D. Roosevelt

concerted, public, mass action

—Eugene Dennis

2

: uncoordinated gross motor behavior : random or nonspecific responses characteristic especially of infants

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