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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
abroad
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a holiday abroad (=a holiday in a country other than the one you live in)
▪ They were planning a holiday abroad that year.
post sb abroad/overseas
travel abroad
▪ Only the affluent could afford to take vacations or to travel abroad.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
flee
▪ He decided that he had no alternative but to flee abroad.
▪ More than a million fled abroad, often at their peril.
▪ Some of his companions died with him, a few fled abroad, but most took refuge in Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire.
▪ Over 140,000 refugees had fled abroad.
▪ John and other members of the family fled abroad, some to Virginia, others to the Continent.
▪ His military adviser, Kleandridas, fled abroad, and was condemned to death in his absence.
▪ Achym fled abroad to avoid the consequences of his crime.
▪ Harry Dubar, who resigned and fled abroad in late June.
go
▪ We were just about to go abroad when our usual nanny was taken ill and was advised not to travel.
▪ If he went abroad she wouldn't even encounter him accidentally.
▪ The middle class either colluded or went abroad in disgust.
▪ What's more San Antonio is our biggest resort in terms of numbers of 18-30s who go abroad with us.
▪ You only had to go abroad to see how we were regarded.
▪ One of them goes abroad all the time and she comes back with some great stories!
▪ Stuart's father had gone abroad, eventually they'd lost touch.
▪ During the Napoleonic Wars, when people couldn't go abroad, they became more preoccupied with architectural styles.
live
▪ Maybe the mothers were fearful that their daughters would marry and live abroad, the idea of permanent separation being too painful.
▪ Legalization also appears to have strengthened relationships between amnesty recipients and their relatives living abroad.
▪ About 260,000 people living abroad were eligible.
▪ Most companies today provide cross-cultural training only if an employee will be living abroad as part of an assignment.
▪ Breaks my heart to part with them but I am going to live abroad and can not take them with me.
▪ It's bad enough for me, imagine living abroad.
▪ She is an invalid, and children are living abroad.
▪ In 1979, it was estimated that some 24.8% of all qualified doctors were living abroad.
move
▪ When you move abroad you face a raft of financial decisions, including which type of bank account to open.
▪ Removals An employee moving abroad is obviously concerned about the safe handling of personal possessions.
post
▪ It should be noted that the majority of employees posted abroad are men although the number of women executive expatriates is increasing.
▪ The Centre for International Briefing runs residential courses for those due to be posted abroad.
sell
▪ Some of the more developed countries make lots of arms to sell abroad.
▪ Very expensive, it sells abroad for enormous prices.
▪ They had them sub-titled in order to be sold abroad for possible profit.
▪ This year they expect a turnover of £170 m, and More than half their shoes are sold abroad.
send
▪ The only occasion when you won't get far without it is when the deceased is being sent abroad.
▪ Instead, this money is being sent abroad to create jobs in nations that use low-cost labor.
▪ This picture was sent abroad to markets and meeting places.
▪ Troubles abroad sent the Dow plunging 554 points Monday, its worst point drop ever.
▪ Take, for example, an executive who is sent abroad on a two or three year contract.
▪ He also wanted to know how many of the precious doses were available to be sent abroad.
▪ Many art exhibitions and cultural events were sent abroad.
▪ There is general disbelief that a young girl sent abroad would be a murderer.
travel
▪ I never paint landscapes and I rarely travel abroad.
▪ He needed to invent a reason to travel abroad because a Marine has two years in the reserve after active duty.
▪ Some knowledge of the West was encouraged and a few individuals travelled abroad.
▪ Those of us who travel abroad know that he is right.
▪ Many hadn't travelled abroad before.
▪ It was the young people often who travelled abroad.
▪ Earlier it had said that Mr Sharif had requested permission to travel abroad for medical treatment.
work
▪ By then he was unofficially resident and working abroad, and in uneasy relations with the Soviet authorities.
▪ He wanted to work abroad like Lockhart; he truly admired him.
▪ There are up to 360 incinerators working abroad and Britain also has a few systems.
▪ The problem is that foreign scouts snap up the talented ones to work abroad.
▪ People who live and work abroad are often mobile.
▪ These modules will be suitable for students employed within the travel and tourism industry, especially if they intend working abroad.
▪ Special arrangements may apply for customers living and working abroad.
▪ Even now many families on Cape Verde depend for their existence on money sent back from relations working abroad.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be noised abroad/about/around
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Corporations do not want their commercial secrets spread abroad.
▪ Katya will make her first trip abroad next month.
▪ Mr Harris is abroad on business this week.
▪ Our daughter wants to study abroad for a year.
▪ You may have to pay taxes, even if you are living and working abroad.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the base library he found a catalogue listing the names of colleges abroad.
▪ Everyone has to meet global competition from those abroad who do have lower wages.
▪ For instance, an extra demand at home or abroad for goods made either cheaper or better by electronics will add to employment.
▪ He's off abroad or swigging sherry in some London drawing-room.
▪ He considers such maneuverings a ridiculous way to run a government and still potentially hazardous to the credit markets here and abroad.
▪ In addition Norman's capacity for enjoyment made him an excellent companion on their trips abroad.
▪ Kim has managed to exploit the barrage of pressure from abroad to force through changes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abroad

Abroad \A*broad"\, adv. [Pref. a- + broad.]

  1. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad.

    The fox roams far abroad.
    --Prior.

  2. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad.

    I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad.
    --Evelyn.

  3. Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. ``Another prince . . . was living abroad.''
    --Macaulay.

  4. Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely.

    He went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter.
    --Mark i. 4

  5. To be abroad.

    1. To be wide of the mark; to be at fault; as, you are all abroad in your guess.

    2. To be at a loss or nonplused.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
abroad

mid-13c., "widely apart," from Old English on brede, which meant something like "at wide" (see a- (1) + broad (adj.)). The sense "out of doors, away from home" (late 14c.) led to the main modern sense of "out of one's country, overseas" (mid-15c.).

Wiktionary
abroad

adv. 1 (context dated English) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space. (First attested from around (1150 to 1350.))(R:SOED5: page=8) 2 (senseid en unconfined)(context dated English) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode. (First attested from around (1150 to 1350.)) 3 Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries. (First attested from around (1350 to 1470.)) n. (context rare English) Countries or lands abroad. (First attested in the mid 19th century.) prep. throughout, over.

WordNet
abroad
  1. adj. in a foreign country; "markets abroad"; "overseas markets" [syn: overseas]

  2. adv. to or in a foreign country; "they had never travelled abroad"

  3. far away from home or one's usual surroundings; "looking afield for new lands to conquer"- R.A.Hall [syn: afield]

  4. in a place across an ocean [syn: overseas, beyond the sea, over the sea]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "abroad".

Hitler and Mussolini was dead, but a new form of it was condoned and abetted abroad by the United States government.

There was no light save the light shed abroad by the flashes of the blade, and in these they beheld the air suffocated with Afrites and Genii in a red and brown and white heat, followers of Karaz.

Disturbance at home immediately succeeds to peace abroad: the commons were goaded by the tribunes with the excitement of the agrarian law.

Lavici being taken, and subsequently Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, and Lucius Servilius Structus, and Publius Lucretius Tricipitinus, all these a second time, and Spurius Rutilius Crassus being military tribunes with consular authority, and on the following year Aulus Sempronius Atratinus a third time, and Marcus Papirius Mugillanus and Spurius Nautius Rutilus both a second time, affairs abroad were peaceable for two years, but at home there was dissension from the agrarian laws.

When he had attended the marriage of Alette, he had travelled abroad, but would, in the course of the summer, return to Semb, where he would settle down, in order to live for the beloved relative whom he had again discovered.

The morbid listening of his mother in the night brought out the fact that he made frequent sallies abroad under cover of darkness, and most of the more academic alienists unite at present in charging him with the revolting cases of vampirism which the press so sensationally reported about this time, but which have not yet been definitely traced to any known perpetrator.

He had lived in it himself before Alvarado had found it expedient to give him a one-way ticket abroad.

A few years ago distinguished military men from abroad came here to participate in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the surrender of Yorktown by Lord Cornwallis.

American Socialists should in no way be held responsible for the anti-religious and atheistic teachings of their comrades abroad, the attention of the reader is called to the fact that the Socialist movement is an international one, and that nearly all the Marxian leaders in Europe are considered by the American Socialists as first class authorities on Socialism.

Said Bahaji attended to similar routine matters for Atta and Binalshibh, thereby helping them remain abroad without drawing attention to their absence.

In her heart of hearts Auntie was deeply hurt that they had not taken her abroad with them.

Today the vital issue in this area of Constitutional Law is whether the treaty-making power is competent to assume obligations for the United States in the discharge of which the President can, without violation of his oath to support the Constitution, involve the country in large scale military operations abroad without authorization by the war-declaring power, Congress to wit.

Almighty enable you to lend a fresh and unprecedented impetus to the onward march of the Faith, revive the spirit of its supporters, enlarge its limits, multiply its local institutions, consolidate its foundations, safeguard its rights, spread abroad its fame, and aid its followers to discharge befittingly their responsibilities, and concentrate on the attainment of the objectives of the Ten-Year Plan, on which the immediate destiny of the entire community depends.

A Commission was sent abroad by President McKinley, in pursuance of the pledge of the Republican National platform, to endeavor to effect an arrangement with the leading European nations for an international bimetallic standard.

The men abroad in search of William were from the Biter, a minor Press gang all his own, led by men who knew his haunts and predilections.