countrywide
- adjective
- /ˈkʌntriˌwaɪd/
- Within 10 years of independence, India completed two countrywide elections, putting parliamentary democracy on a firm footing.
- countrywide elections
Examples
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Medical insurance is not just a personal issue; it is a topic of countrywide discourse.
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Reports from Cairo, Alexandria, and elsewhere in the country indicate the block is wholesale and countrywide.
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And what resulted was a countrywide program.
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And yet there is a countrywide effort to prevent hundreds of thousands of people from voting.
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But I thought this issue was important enough that I should make a public case for a countrywide shutdown, which I did.
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The Democratic Action Party, the opposition party in Malaysia, initiated a series of activities that would evolve into a countrywide movement to preserve the site.
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On April 1, 1933, Germany's new masters staged a countrywide boycott of Jewish stores, lawyers, and physicians.
Academic text (1998) -
The coup d'état on 1 September 1969 led by Colonel Gadaffi had countrywide support.
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Her old-fashioned frugality, born from the necessities of her youth, is newly refound in countrywide recycling programs born from environmental necessity.
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The country implemented a countrywide initiative to reduce plastic waste and promote recycling.
Synonyms
About a whole country and its people
Happening across the whole country
In every part of the country
In many different places across the country
Across the whole country
All over the country
Antonyms
How Widespread
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word countrywide comes from country and wide, where 'wide' means 'across' or 'covering a large area', like worldwide. So countrywide means happening or existing across the whole country.