by in large

Adverb

by and large (not comparable)

1. (focus, idiomatic) Mostly; generally; all things considered.
   • It was, by and large, an unexceptional presentation.

   Synonyms:

   for the most part, generally, mostly, on the whole, usually, all in all, all things considered, altogether, broadly, as a rule

2. (idiomatic, obsolete) In one way or another.
   • Miss Betsey, a charming frigate, that will do honour to our country, if you take her by and large.1769, Southern Literary Messenger, volume XVII, number 183, page 2
3. Sailing alternately into the wind and in the same direction as the wind.
   • […] For to make a Ship to drawe or goe but little into the water, and to hold a good winde, and to ſaile well both by and large, were very neceſſarie, and eſpecially in theſe our ſhallowe Seas, […]1578, William Bourne, Inventions or Devises, London