countrywide
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edit- country-wide
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editcountrywide (not comparable)
- Throughout a country; nationwide.
- 1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 377:
- 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.
- 1977, Jack Chen, “The Kuomintang's Last Gamble”, in The Sinkiang Story[1], New York, London: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.; Collier Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 253:
- 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.
Adverb
editcountrywide (not comparable)
- Throughout a country; nationwide.
- 1919 November 15, A. M. Graham, “The Memorial Building a Living Tribute”, in 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, 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, pages 216–217:
- The operation lifted Mujahidin pride and morale countrywide.
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