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community-wide

community-wide

1 3.3
Affecting all people in a community
  • adjective
  • /kəˈmjunɪti waɪd/
translation icon : comunitario
  • "It's really a community-wide effort," said Harvey Allen, President of the Forked River Rotary Club.
  • community-wide outbreak
  • community-wide effort

Examples

  • Tai Long festivals are organized on a community-wide basis where guests are received and feasted in the temple.

    Academic text (1992)

  • In addition, community colleges often offer community-wide services, sponsor cultural events, and participate in community development efforts.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The Mayfest was to be a community-wide art festival on the first weekend in May.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • However, the key to a PBIS framework is the community-wide nature of its implementation.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The aim of community-wide mass vaccination is to reduce or eliminate disease resulting from infection.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Gaithersburg received the award based on ratings from a community-wide survey conducted in the fall of 2011.

    Blog text (13)

  • Community-wide access to immunizations is provided by working with the public health authority and local pharmacies.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Community-wide efforts to reduce and recycle household waste at the curbside must be supported.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Family values, after all, reflect community-wide orientations toward planning for the future and economic hopefulness, as well as gender bias.

    Academic text (2007)

  • The local government organized a community-wide event to encourage recycling among residents.

Synonyms

across-the-board
vscommunity-wide
15 4.4

Affecting everyone or everything in a group in the same way

targets the social members and subgroups of a local population
area-wide
vscommunity-wide
1 4.1

Affecting all parts of a town, city, or region

focuses on people and social groups rather than on physical space

Antonyms

individual
847 3.0

Relating to one person rather than to a group, or showing a person's own style

exclusive
399 5.4

Only for one person, group, or purpose and not shared

How Wide

nationwide
265 3.0
citywide
18 2.8
community-wide
1 3.3
local
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

community-wide positive

Morphology

community-wide = community + wide (transparent) = community + wide

Formed as a compound 'community' + 'wide' with the clear meaning 'throughout the community', directly inferable from the parts.

Etymology

Community-wide joins community (a group of people who live together and share things) and wide ('across' or 'covering many'), so the word paints a picture of something spreading across the whole group. So a community-wide action affects or involves the whole community, not just a few people.