countrywide
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3.5
- 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.
Blog text (30) -
Reports from Cairo, Alexandria, and elsewhere in the country indicate the block is wholesale and countrywide.
Blog text (30) -
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.
Blog text (10) -
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.
Academic text (1993) -
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.
Blog text (22) -
Her old-fashioned frugality, born from the necessities of her youth, is newly refound in countrywide recycling programs born from environmental necessity.
Fiction book (1992) -
The country implemented a countrywide initiative to reduce plastic waste and promote recycling.
Synonyms
∞
2.0
About a whole country and its people
439
1.8
In every part of the country
249
3.0
Happening across the whole country
163
2.1
In many different places across the country
157
3.0
Across the whole country
51
2.6
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.