statewide

/steɪtˈwaɪd/

statewide adjective: happening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union).

Adjective

statewide (not comparable)

Happening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union).
- School monies are derived from two general sources in Georgia—State taxes and local taxes. ¶ The State secures money for its school funds from two sources—a statewide general property tax, and a unit of measure tax on gasoline and kerosene.1933, "Negro Education in Georgia", The Crisis, volume 40 (W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, ed.), page 180
- The 1963-founded Surfing Victoria meanwhile held regional and statewide contests; today the organization schedules more than 25 statewide pro and amateur events each year.2003, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, Harcourt,, →ISBN, page 670
Synonyms:

cantonwide, provincewide
Happening in or affecting an entire sovereign state; nationwide.
- But should economic science further such attempts by accepting those doctrines at their face value, couching all its discourse in terms of statewide economies, and making its basic estimates in terms of national totals, i.e., totals for the relatively artificial boundaries of states?1941, Simon Kuznets, National Income and Its Composition, 1919–1938, volume 1, page 51
- All their activities in the economic and political sphere were related to the state’s law and were performed within the statewide market for labor and commodities, and their citizen’s rights could be exercised in state elections. All these facts and forces favored the identification of the people...1993, Zdzisław Mach, Symbols, Conflict, and Identity, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, pages 96–97
Synonyms:

countrywide, national, nationwide

Adverb

statewide (not comparable)

Throughout a state (political subdivision of a federal union).
- Sharks are an ever-present hazard in South Australia…as of 2002 there had been nearly 50 attacks statewide, including a 48-hour period in September 2000 that saw two surfer fatalities.2003, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, Harcourt,, →ISBN, page 554
- After an unsuccessful attempt to have The Grapes of Wrath banned statewide (the effort backfired), the AF commissioned and distributed a barrage of counternarratives.2005, Douglas Cazaux Sackman, Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden, University of California Press,, →ISBN, page 280
Synonyms:

cantonwide, provincewide
Throughout a sovereign state; nationwide.
- Alternatives to the core Spanish identity were pressing only in the Catalon and Basque regions and not statewide.2004, Carol Skalnik Leff, “Democratization and Disintegration in the Multinational States: The Breakup of the Communist Federations”, in Timothy J. Sinclair, editor, Global Governance, volume II...
- In the end, the Communist Party scored a stunning victory in the 26 May 1946 election, winning more than 40 percent in the Czech provinces and taking a substantial plurality of the vote statewide.2005, Benjamin Frommer, National Cleansing, Cambridge University Press,, →ISBN, page 216
Synonyms:

countrywide, nationally, nationwide

Noun

statewide (plural statewides)

(US) An agency or association operating through a state (political subdivision).

statewide meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Vietnamese

statewide in Tamil

மாநிலம் தழுவிய

statewide in Bengali

দেশব্যাপী, রাষ্ট্রের সর্বত্র কার্যকর

statewide in Vietnamese

happening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union): toàn bang, toàn tiểu bang

Examples of statewide in a sentence

Fewer Saxon and Bavarian cities attempted to implement mandatory stunning laws, but their state parliaments debated the possibility of creating statewide bans on kosher butchering.2007, Robin Judd, Contested Rituals, Cornell University Press,, →ISBN, page 145:
Along with the rise of modern states came the establishment of statewide official currencies with the aim of protecting the corresponding markets and increasing trade within state territories.2007, Josep M. Colomer, Great Empires, Small Nations, Routledge,, →ISBN, page 46:
The state of Jalisco hired a single pharmacy company to provide all such medicines statewide.2011, Marc J. Roberts, Michael R. Reich, Pharmaceutical Reform, The World Bank, →ISBN, page 152:
The Solomons do not cohere ethnographically (there are 70 languages spoken statewide) and nor are they likely to, at least, not in the short term.2012, Ralph Pettman, Psychopathology and World Politics, World Scientific,, →ISBN, page 179:

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Synonyms of statewide

All synonyms of statewide

Forms of statewide

plural	statewides

Origin of statewide

From state + -wide.

Words that rhyme with statewide

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Questions about statewide

What does statewide mean?: Statewide means happening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union).
What is statewide in Tamil?: Statewide in Tamil is மாநிலம் தழுவிய. See Statewide meaning in Tamil.
How do you use statewide in a sentence?: Fewer Saxon and Bavarian cities attempted to implement mandatory stunning laws, but their state parliaments debated the possibility of creating statewide bans on kosher butchering.
What part of speech is statewide?: Statewide can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
How do you pronounce statewide?: Statewide is pronounced /steɪtˈwaɪd/.

Words near statewide in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: statewide (page history and authors); statewide (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); statewide (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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