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单词 nationwide
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nationwidena‧tion‧wide /ˌneɪʃənˈwaɪd◂, ˈneɪʃənwaɪd/ ●●○ adjective [usually before noun] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • A nationwide hunt was launched yesterday for the killer of 13-year-old Nicola Jones.
  • The case got nationwide attention.
  • We have 350 sales outlets nationwide.
  • Workers held nationwide strikes and demonstrations all over Spain.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A period of nationwide mourning was declared for Jan. 23-28.
  • May 24 saw further nationwide strikes and demonstrations in 12 cities.
  • The nationwide initiative in evangelism, another of his personally inspired outreach projects, showed similar faults.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatoreverywhere in a place or country
also every place American informal in or to every part of a place or country: · The whole street was flooded - there was water everywhere.· Where did you find my keys? I've been looking everywhere for them.· You see bank machines everywhere nowadays.· They go every place together.everywhere in: · There were beautiful rice fields everywhere in the region.everywhere else (=in every other place): · Doctors in Colorado, like doctors everywhere else, did not have enough of the vaccine.
in or to many different parts of a town, country etc, especially when you want to say that you have been to many places: · We spent two weeks in Mexico and traveled all over.· The choir has sung in concerts all over the country.· Katie's toys were spread out all over the floor.all over the place: · He went all over the place looking for a shop selling corkscrews but couldn't find one.
in every part of an area or place: · You could hear their laughter throughout the building.· The house is in excellent condition with fitted carpets throughout.
if you find a particular thing wherever you go or look , you find it in all the different places that you go to or look in: · There seem to be fountains wherever you look in this park.· He seems to make friends wherever he goes.
informal in many different places, without any particular plan or pattern: · We lived here, there, and everywhere as I was growing up.· The adults sat on the porch while the children ran here, there, and everywhere.
in every part of a country: nationwide strike/demonstration/campaign: · Workers held nationwide strikes and demonstrations all over Spain.nationwide search/hunt/study/survey: · A nationwide hunt was launched yesterday for the killer of 13-year-old Nicola Jones.
happening in many places - use this especially about problems or bad situations that affect many areas or many countries: · There has been widepread flooding in Germany, and the rivers are still rising.· Government corruption is widespread in the country.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· The missing 15-year-old was found yesterday after a nationwide appeal for help.
· The walk was part of a national campaign to raise £900,000.
· He was head of a national chain of grocery stores.
(=in every part of a country)· Kim was missing for two months, prompting a nationwide search.
(=all over the country)· In April 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers called a national strike.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· Meanwhile, political and ethnic strife in Bosnia have steadily mounted in the run-up to nationwide elections there on September 14.
· We are well qualified and equipped to do this through our committed and trained people and our nationwide network of local offices.· The fear is that a nationwide network of police computers could swap unsubstantiated gossip and suspicion about individuals.· Ellis was trapped after Liverpool trading standards officers, posing as dealers, smashed a nationwide network of underground sellers.
· Another nationwide poll taken last month by the Los Angeles Times gave the Democrats a seven-point edge.· It is likely to be its party chairman Gennady Zyuganov, who now leads nationwide polls for president.
· So effective was their network that pro-democracy groups were able to organise two unusual nationwide protests.· Rabbi Wise called for nationwide protests.· Beida was slow to become involved, but their ultimate participation completed the final link in the nationwide protest.· Opposition leaders said they would try to stage nationwide protests, but previous opposition rallies have met only lukewarm support.
· A £100,000 nationwide search, involving a helicopter, was launched.· Her disappearance prompted a nationwide search.· Her successor would be selected after a nationwide search, and a thorough vetting by the appropriate parish committees.· Will interim athletic director Paul Bubb be deemed the most-qualified candidate after a nationwide search is conducted?· The horrifying news sent the Ciprianos on a nationwide search to find the best possible treatment for their daughter.· Klaas was missing for two months, prompting a nationwide search.· A nationwide search was under way for a typical coed.
· Industrial action On June 6, 1990, there was a 24-hour nationwide strike to protest against the latest austerity measures.· Since nearly all passenger trains included Pullmans, a nationwide strike resulted.· May 24 saw further nationwide strikes and demonstrations in 12 cities.
· It is one of the findings of a nationwide survey carried out by the Bitumen Association.· A subject chosen following a nationwide survey. £60,000 advertising campaign.· A nationwide survey completed May 16 showed that Clinton is reaping a political windfall with support from women.· The latest nationwide survey showed Clinton defeating Dole 56 percent to 39 percent in a hypothetical two-way race.
· The President announced this action and explained its background to a startled nation over nationwide television on 22 October.
· Yorick had wanted the Hammersmith Odeon for his comeback concert, followed by a nationwide tour of Britain's major cities.· The eighty-three year old Nobel Peace prize winner is currently on a nationwide tour.
happening or existing in every part of the country SYN  countrywide:  a nationwide search for a missing British tourist nationwide televisionnationwide adverb:  We have 350 sales outlets nationwide.
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