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borderwide

borderwide adverb: throughout an entire border.

Adverb

borderwide (comparative more borderwide, superlative most borderwide)

  1. Throughout an entire border.
    • The administration implemented that policy borderwide in spring 2018 but quickly abandoned it under heavy criticism.2019 October 25, “Trump administration testing rapid asylum review, deportation process in Texas”, in El Paso Herald Post, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2021

Adjective

borderwide (not comparable)

  1. Throughout an entire border.
    • Structurally, the borderwide workgroups and sub-workgroups of Border XXI were reorganized into four regional workgroups covering the entire border, with multiple media-specific and geo-specific task forces within each regional workgroup.2012, Erik Lee, The U.S.-Mexican Border Environment: Progress and Challenges

Forms of borderwide

comparativemore borderwide
superlativemost borderwide

Origin of borderwide

From border + -wide.

Questions about borderwide

What does borderwide mean?
Borderwide means throughout an entire border.
What part of speech is borderwide?
Borderwide can be an adverb or an adjective.

Words near borderwide in the dictionary

  1. borderspace
  2. borderspaces
  3. borderstone
  4. borderstones
  5. Bordertown
  6. borderwide
  7. borderwork
  8. borderzone
  9. borderzones
  10. Bordes
  11. Bordeses

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