far-reachingˌfar-ˈreaching ●○○ adjective 
The country carried out far-reaching reforms to modernize its economy.far-reaching implications/impact/effects Tourism has had far-reaching effects on the island’s culture.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a far-reaching law on environmental protection
- The court's decision will have far-reaching implications for the health care industry.
- As Secretary of the Treasury you planted the seeds for the most far-reaching tax reform in our history.
- Debate over the far-reaching consequences of the attempted confiscation action should not die with their acquittal.
- New Labour, by contrast, has embarked on the most far-reaching programme of constitutional reform attempted in this country this century.
- The effect of these changes will be far-reaching and transport will, in many respects, be at the sharp end.
- Usually though, to make far-reaching decisions correctly and capitalise on opportunity, vital intelligence is essential.
Longman Language Activatorhaving a big effect
: far-reaching effects/implications/changes/consequences etc effects, changes etc that are likely to have a big and continuing effect on something: · The court's decision will have far-reaching implications for the health care industry.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The country carried out far-reaching reforms to modernize its economy. Tourism has had far-reaching effects on the island’s culture.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
having a great influence or effectfar-reaching reforms/proposals/changes The country carried out far-reaching reforms to modernize its economy. Tourism has had far-reaching effects on the island’s culture.· However, out work carries immense potential, even more far-reaching than our own lives.· For knowledge of different worlds helped them to see challenges' with better, more far-reaching perspectives.· This led to developments in both music and the Liturgy which were probably more far-reaching than the Council Fathers anticipated.· But other organisations supporting traditional woodland management have more far-reaching objectives in mind.· The connection between this form of critique and freedom is more far-reaching still.· Only surrounded by an even more far-reaching particular manifestation of life, such a thing as the expression of sorrow or affection.· The changes of the 1980s were more far-reaching than those of the 1930s.· The study also suggests that there may be even more far-reaching effects of low fares.
· The most far-reaching omission was the lack of any firm commitment to a policy for integration.· The most far-reaching change could be a cut in the capital gains tax.· This means he must look for what had the most far-reaching effects.· As Secretary of the Treasury you planted the seeds for the most far-reaching tax reform in our history.· This, the most far-reaching of the bill's proposals, would have resulted in the prohibition of over 300 pesticides.· New Labour, by contrast, has embarked on the most far-reaching programme of constitutional reform attempted in this country this century.· We have not discussed what may well be the most far-reaching effect of the physical side of our courtship.
NOUN· It has been paralleled by far-reaching changes in the ways in which politicians seek to influence their electorate.· But it also has some serious drawbacks, especially during times of far-reaching change.· Young people were already feeling insecure because of the far-reaching changes going on around them and the uncertainties about the reform programme.· The most far-reaching change could be a cut in the capital gains tax.· This is not surprising, since the effects of the industrial revolution were at this time causing far-reaching changes in society.· But in the past twenty years there had been two far-reaching changes.· In one area Tanucci did aim at far-reaching change.
· Virgo: an unexpected outing could have far-reaching consequences, bringing romance into your life.· Sectorisation had especially far-reaching consequences for Railfreight.· Debate over the far-reaching consequences of the attempted confiscation action should not die with their acquittal.· It was a defeat which was to have profound and far-reaching consequences for state medical regulation of sexuality.· When this appears to happen literally the child may feel a guilt that can have far-reaching consequences.· The constituency agitation had far-reaching consequences.· The disintegration of the left's main power-base will have far-reaching consequences.· Failure to communicate successfully will have far-reaching consequences - bad reviews, the need to repeat a class.
· This means he must look for what had the most far-reaching effects.· This radical break with tradition had far-reaching effects on the tone and substance of the poetry.· Nevertheless it can have a far-reaching effect on the lives of those identified as known or suspected abusers.· We have not discussed what may well be the most far-reaching effect of the physical side of our courtship.· The study also suggests that there may be even more far-reaching effects of low fares.
· But either way, its offering of a database engine will have an enormous and far-reaching impact.
· The outcome will set a precedent with far-reaching implications for the whole restitution process.· That could have far-reaching implications for the country.· Much of this reflects the entrenched acute-service bias of the National Health Service, and major change would have far-reaching implications.· Monkey business A legal case in Los Angeles County may have far-reaching implications for the rights of our closest non-human relatives.· These different views of who the clients are also have far-reaching implications for how we organise the delivery of care.· Important innovations were introduced by the 1919 Act, which were to have far-reaching implications.· This strange argument has far-reaching implications for understanding Freud's theory as being a social one.
· Among his many far-reaching reforms, Gorbachev effected a transfer of power from Communist Party to executive presidency.· The new government provoked widespread rebellion by instituting a series of far-reaching reforms in a brutal and disorganised manner.
The country carried out far-reaching reforms to modernize its economy.far-reaching implications/impact/effects Tourism has had far-reaching effects on the island’s culture.