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countrywide

countrywide

English

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  • country-wide

Adjective

countrywide (not comparable)

  1. Throughout a country; nationwide.

Adverb

countrywide (not comparable)

  1. Throughout a country; nationwide.
    • 1919 November 15, A. M. Graham, "The Memorial Building a Living Tribute", Arts & Decoration, volume XII, number 1, page 22:
      …America, with such vital power, with a people ambitious, wealthy, great and of a noble past, has a task before it, into which it will enter with a will, since the need is felt countrywide.
    • 1988, John Maxwell Hamilton, Edgar Snow: A Biography, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-31909-9, page 259:
      On such a day the streets of Peking and other cities could be peaceful, as if order had been restored countrywide.
    • 2011, Peter Tomsen, The Wars of Afghanistan, PublicAffairs, ISBN 978-1-58648-763-8, pages 216–217:
      The operation lifted Mujahidin pride and morale countrywide.

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