global

CEFRB1

/ˈɡləʊ.bəl/

adjective

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In plain English

01
adjective
Relating to the whole world or affecting many countries.
02
adjective
Extra detail
Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal

Examples

Most important of all, the brain needs global reentry pathways connecting these anatomical structures.
This year the global economy will grow by about 4 per cent.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

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In context

We must look at the problem from a global point of view.
World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the War on Terror are global conflicts.
Global variables keep support engineers employed.

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Some rights are more global than others; social rights in particular do not seem to globalise easily.
2003, Catherine Dupré, Importing the law in post-communist transitions, page 169
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19
Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
2016, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, page 122
The first account that is created when you sign up is the global Administrator.
2013 December 30, Matthew Katze, Don Crawford, Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud, →ISBN, page 366

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From globe + -al; compare French global.