area-wide
- adjective
- /ˈɛəriə waɪd/
- The city implemented an area-wide initiative to improve public transportation services.
Examples
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NOD-22 permits, along with several other general permits and numerous area-wide maintenance dredging permits, have greatly reduced the number of individual public notices issued for oil and gas activities.
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Area-wide maintenance dredging permits, first authorized in 1987, allow maintenance of existing canals within a developed oil and gas field, with federal agency review only.
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Be prepared for poor driving conditions area-wide.
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Ozone is most frequently measured at the urban or regional scale, which can be used to determine trends and design area-wide control strategies.
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Another component of the area-wide project is the release of sterile codling moth males.
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This information could be used by individual corn farmers or a consortium of pest managers involved in area-wide pest management.
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Washington should focus more intensely on the region, adopting an area-wide approach that offers both carrots and sticks and sets discrete benchmarks for local governments.
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Land- and satellite-based gravity measurements provide area-wide information on changes in the volume of water in storage but do not provide information on vertical changes in heads (water levels) in aquifer systems.
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Area-wide management plans in which farmers cooperate to limit the hectares over which a single herbicide is applied can prevent the spread of a resistant species across a landscape (Dauer et al. 2009).
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John D. Martin, 1969-1975, consolidated Bechill's successful work, particularly through the implementation of area-wide model projects that demonstrated the capacities of states to pool existing resources together with OAA funds to establish selected state and local service delivery systems.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
Relating to the whole world, not just one country
Happening across the whole country
Happening in many places or among many people
Very large and affecting many people or places
Covering a large area or affecting many things
Affecting everyone or everything in a group in the same way
Including everything and everyone in a single plan
Affecting every part of a system, not just one part
Affecting all companies in the same industry
Affecting every part of a company
Happening in all parts of a district
Happening in all parts of a county
Happening across the whole country
Affecting all people in a community
Happening across a whole area
Affecting the whole continent, not just one country
Happens across a whole school and involves students and staff
Happening in many countries around the world
Affecting the whole planet
Covering the whole store and all its items
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Etymology
The word area-wide is made by joining area ('a region or space') and wide ('covering a lot'), so it means something that covers or affects the whole area.