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Nationwide   /nˈeɪʃənwˈaɪd/   Listen
Nationwide

adjective
1.
Occurring or extending throughout a country or nation.  Synonym: countrywide.  "A countrywide fund-raising campaign"
adverb
1.
Extending throughout an entire nation.  Synonyms: across the country, across the nation, nationally.  "It was broadcast nationwide"






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"Nationwide" Quotes from Famous Books



... Danes prepared them for delivery by taking all their guns and equipment ashore, and then burning the warehouse in which these were stored. The Nazis even forbade the press to mention the incident, lest it become a signal for a nationwide demonstration ...
— Introduction to Non-Violence • Theodore Paullin

... Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas, but Senator Pomeroy lent it importance by his opening speech, and through the detailed and respectful reporting of the New York World and of Grace Greenwood of the Philadelphia Press it received nationwide notice. ...
— Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian • Alma Lutz

... obeyed; when the sick and defective and aged among the poor are cared for at public expense as a matter of course, there will be no need for children to work to help support the family; and we must endeavor, by the arousal of public opinion and by nationwide legislation, to keep children out of the factories, the shops, and the mines, till they are full-grown and educated. [Footnote: S. Nearing, The Solution of the Child-Labor Problem. J. Spargo, The Bitter Cry of the Children. E. N. Clopper, Child Labor in City ...
— Problems of Conduct • Durant Drake

... highly developed, technologically advanced, and completely automated domestic and international telephone and telegraph facilities domestic: nationwide cellular telephone system; extensive cable network; limited microwave radio relay network international: 5 submarine cables; satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... has got to be, whether it is a statewide or a nationwide, Northern Nut Growers or Pennsylvania Nut Growers or Ohio Nut Growers, is a committee of five—I will say five, you can make it 10 or 15—that will say, "Now, for Ohio here are ten varieties that we think should be tested. ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various



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