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wide-reaching

wide-reaching adjective: having significant and widely applicable effects.

Adjective

wide-reaching (comparative wider-reaching or more wide-reaching, superlative widest-reaching or most wide-reaching)

  1. Having significant and widely applicable effects.
    • Trespass on the railway can result in tragic consequences that can have a life-changing and wide-reaching impact on individuals and their families and friends.2021 September 22, Patrick Talbot, “Rail trespass: why you must secure your premises”, in RAIL, number 940, page 69

Forms of wide-reaching

comparativewider-reaching
comparativemore wide-reaching
superlativewidest-reaching
superlativemost wide-reaching
alternative formwidereaching

Questions about wide-reaching

What does wide-reaching mean?
Wide-reaching means having significant and widely applicable effects.
What part of speech is wide-reaching?
Wide-reaching is an adjective.

Words near wide-reaching in the dictionary

  1. wide-hipped
  2. wide-on
  3. wide-ons
  4. wide-ranging
  5. wide-rangingly
  6. wide-reaching
  7. wide-scale
  8. wide-spread
  9. wide-wasting
  10. wideawake
  11. wideawake hat

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