🤝 Helping others 📏 To reach farther

to outreach

1 4.1

To reach farther than another thing or person

verb
/ˈaʊtˌriːtʃ/

: ponerse en contacto con

In Hong Kong and elsewhere, outreaching social work shoulders an important responsibility for locating and helping delinquents or young people at risk of delinquency, who are not under arrest or incapacitated.

So with the Free State Project, our job is to outreach to people and help them move and relocate and get here.

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Examples

To increase participation, the organization decided to outreach schools and local youth groups.
These are the messages that can support the critical efforts to outreach and get feedback from the school community and donors.

Academic text (2015)
So with the Free State Project, our job is to outreach to people and help them move and relocate and get here.

ReasonTV
College personnel may outreach to these students in College Freshmen Seminars or Orientation courses and Black student organizations.

Academic text (2005)
The charity aims to outreach to families in need by providing food and clothing.
During the campaign, the team will outreach to various communities to share important health information.

Antonyms

to fall short

64 3.9

Fail to reach the level people expect

Compounds

community outreach

7 2.8

Work to help people in a local area by offering services or information

Surface Forms

outreach infinitive

outreached past

outreached past participle

outreaching present participle

outreaches third person singular

Morphology

outreach = reach (transparent) = out + reach

The meaning of reaching out farther than someone or something else is a direct extension of 'reach'.

Etymology

Outreach as a verb joins out- ('beyond') and reach ('to stretch'), giving a clear image: if you stretch your arm past someone else you go farther than them. To outreach something is to reach farther than it or to have more influence.