countrywide

CEFRC1

/ˌkʌn.tɹiˈwaɪd/

adjective

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adjective
Existing or happening throughout an entire country.
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adjective
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Throughout a country.

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The countrywide tour was a huge success.
The police launched a countrywide search for the missing suspect.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 2
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 1

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The company offered countrywide shipping services.
On such a day the streets of Peking and other cities could be peaceful, as if order had been restored countrywide.
The operation lifted Mujahidin pride and morale countrywide.

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In order to provide for a large measure of rail participation in countrywide collection and delivery of small consignments—a task they were never particularly well suited to do, and which they did only because the horse and cart were worse—the railways sacrificed their main advantages.
1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 377
Sure of his superiority, Chiang launched a countrywide offensive to establish his supremacy. In October, his troops occupied the important North China city of Changchiakou (Kalgan) and a number of other cities evacuated by the People's Liberation Army in accordance with its strategy of not holding cities but concentrating on wiping out enemy troops.
1977, Jack Chen, “The Kuomintang's Last Gamble”, in The Sinkiang Story, New York; London: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.; Collier Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 253
…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.
1919 November 15, A. M. Graham, “The Memorial Building a Living Tribute”, in Arts & Decoration, volume XII, number 1, page 22
On such a day the streets of Peking and other cities could be peaceful, as if order had been restored countrywide.
1988, John Maxwell Hamilton, Edgar Snow: A Biography, Indiana University Press,, →ISBN, page 259
The operation lifted Mujahidin pride and morale countrywide.
2011, Peter Tomsen, The Wars of Afghanistan, PublicAffairs, →ISBN, pages 216–217

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Origin

adjective

From country + -wide.

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adjective

The new law required a blank ban on single-use plastics to reduce pollution.