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societywide

societywide adjective: throughout society.

Adjective

societywide (not comparable)

  1. Throughout society.
    • That trial, which began the same week as the elections that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, remains a symbol, to a certain sort of Englishman, of the societywide breakdown of the 1970s, which was a decade of currency devaluations, crippling strikes, uncollected garbage and shortened workweeks.2009 July 12, Christopher Caldwell, “Can David Cameron Redefine Britain’s Tory Party?”, in New York Times

Adverb

societywide (not comparable)

  1. Throughout society.

Origin of societywide

From society + -wide.

Questions about societywide

What does societywide mean?
Societywide means throughout society.
What part of speech is societywide?
Societywide can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near societywide in the dictionary

  1. Society of Friends
  2. Society of Jesus
  3. society verse
  4. society verses
  5. societyless
  6. societywide
  7. socii
  8. Socinian
  9. Socinianism
  10. Socinianist
  11. Socinianistic

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