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league-wide

league-wide

1 4.1
Affecting all teams or members in a league
  • adjective
translation icon : a nivel de liga
  • There may be a league-wide reshuffling next year.
  • league-wide trend
  • league-wide revenue
  • league-wide average

Examples

  • How will this change affect league-wide ticket sales during the 2012-13 season compared to last season?

    Blog text (5)
  • To have it league-wide would just be awesome.

    Blog text (13)
  • There will also be a league-wide tournament at the end of the season.

    Blog text (21)
  • A league-wide player survey in 2001 rated the coliseum as the fourth-best playing surface in the National Football League.

    Academic text (2002)
  • They aren't growing the game (which is a big enough problem league-wide) at all.

    Blog text (29)
  • But Kobe has an accumulated reservoir of league-wide respect that Dwight does not.

    Blog text (29)
  • Batters changing teams within the American League have, in fact, had their strikeout rates rise slightly less than would be expected, given the typical bump in the league-wide rate.

    Blog text (5)
  • Maybe league-wide parity isn't all it cracked up to be (see NFL), as long as there is parity among the league's elite.

    Blog text (11)
  • By virtue of his 60th place finish league-wide, he's in the company of Juan Gonzalez, B.J. Surhoff, and the defensively ridiculous Gary Matthews Jr.

    Blog text (33)
  • The league-wide decision to increase the salary cap was welcomed by players from all teams.

Synonyms

across the board
vsleague-wide
110 3.7

In a way that affects everyone in a group with no one left out

applies only within one organization of teams or members
across-the-board
vsleague-wide
15 4.4

Affecting everyone or everything in a group in the same way

applies only within one organization of teams or members
blanket
vsleague-wide
5.1

Applying to everyone in a group without exception

applies only within one organization of teams or members

How Wide

nationwide
265 3.0
league-wide
1 4.1
company-wide
4 3.4

Surface Forms

league-wide positive

Morphology

league-wide = league + wide (transparent) = league + wide

A straightforward compound where 'wide' indicates extent across the league, so learners who know 'league' and 'wide' can infer the meaning.

Etymology

League-wide comes from two simple parts: league, an old word meaning 'to join' or 'bring together' (like the common word link), and wide, meaning 'across' or 'throughout'. So, league-wide describes something that reaches or affects all teams in a league.