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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
broadly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
broadly/essentially correct (=correct in most ways, but possibly not all)
▪ All the evidence suggests that the results of his research are essentially correct.
broadly/roughly similar
▪ The new employment terms and conditions will be broadly similar to those currently in place.
grin broadly/widely
▪ He walked out of the pool, grinning widely.
roughly/broadly speaking
▪ These innovations are, roughly speaking, what this book is about.
smile broadly (=very happily, with a wide smile)
▪ He sat there smiling broadly.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
based
▪ The Physical Education department endeavours to provide a broadly based service for all students and staff within the University.
▪ Andersen Consulting believes what you really need is a more broadly based approach.
▪ There was much interest in a broadly based Middle Eastern Command which would enlist the willing support of the Arab states.
▪ What was a broadly based culture has become a field of specialization.
▪ The Trust's share of Wellcome represents 95 percent of its income-producing to seek a larger and more broadly based income.
▪ It is, according to the Torstar 1983 business profile: a broadly based information and entertainment communications company.
▪ I would like to propose one broadly based category which will clearly require extensive elaboration and refinement.
comparable
▪ The speed of decision making of some tribunals is broadly comparable with that of magistrates' courts and the county courts.
consistent
▪ These results are broadly consistent with observed ozone changes.
equivalent
▪ This is in accordance with the Council's long standing policy to maintain reserves broadly equivalent to three months' core activity expenditure.
▪ It would provide the maximum area of water within the engineering constraints and would be broadly equivalent to mean high water mark.
representative
▪ Responses have been received from all over the country, and in geographical terms, can regarded as broadly representative.
▪ Training and Enterprise Councils will be retained, reformed and made more broadly representative of their local communities and given stable budgets.
▪ What really rankles is the loss of the idea that these bodies are broadly representative of the communities they serve.
similar
▪ Carlton Communications came from a broadly similar direction but with even more spectacular growth.
▪ Even countries with broadly similar cultures can differ in what they define as criminal.
▪ Both the president and the Republican Congress want to reverse that trend with broadly similar plans.
▪ When they work as agents for finance companies, their rates may be broadly similar though slightly higher.
▪ There is an obvious danger of excessive duplication when broadly similar organizations conduct broadly similar campaigns.
▪ Different agencies use rather different versions of this, but they all look broadly similar.
▪ The appropriate policies that might influence a decision-maker are broadly similar in the two contexts.
speaking
▪ It is compounded, broadly speaking, of two atoms of hydrogen attached to one of oxygen: H 2 0.
▪ The independent film movement, broadly speaking, grew out of an art tradition.
▪ The effect of a decree of nullity, broadly speaking, is that the marriage is treated as if it had never existed.
■ VERB
accept
▪ Apart from that, however, I would broadly accept Mr. Munby's third and fourth propositions.
agree
▪ We broadly agree with the analysis outlined in the preamble to Threshold 21.
define
▪ The Meaning and Purpose of Regulation Economic regulation might be defined broadly as government interference in what could be a market-based activity.
▪ Personality Personality can be broadly defined as the propensities within an individual to act a certain way, given a particular context.
▪ Independent films are, broadly defined, movies that appeal to sophisticated audiences, usually produced outside the traditional studio system.
divide
▪ Security interests can be divided broadly into consensual and non-consensual securities.
▪ In this study junctions are divided broadly into two categories depending on the accident estimates that were given to them.
follow
▪ The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers' Statute.
▪ This index broadly follows the subject headings used in Current Law.
grin
▪ Li Yuan grinned broadly, enjoying himself.
▪ The man grinned broadly when he heard Nate.
smile
▪ She smiles broadly when her name is called.
▪ He looked up guiltily to find his mother, his brother and Paul smiling broadly at him.
▪ The man took a well-timed opportunity to smile broadly, a smile that said everything if one knew how to read.
▪ Neville smiled broadly and turned towards the pumps.
▪ I saw that dumb interpreter smiling broadly.
▪ He did not speak much but smiled broadly when she thanked him.
▪ Eventually he turns to me smiling broadly.
speak
▪ To summarize, broadly speaking there are three main categories of such patients. 1.
▪ Moral freedom is, broadly speaking, the possession of the ability t choose either good or evil.
▪ They mean, broadly speaking, that the talk is less formal.
▪ The Far East is broadly speaking a tropical and sub-tropical world.
▪ But broadly speaking the tendency around the middle of the century was toward a more motet-like treatment of the parts.
▪ A class is, broadly speaking, an important set.
▪ Domicile. Broadly speaking you are domiciled in the country in which you have your permanent home.
support
▪ What emerged was a declaration broadly supporting the anti-crisis programme, but altering it in several crucial respects.
▪ Months before then, the administration must forge a position broadly supported at home.
▪ The marches were little more than an escape valve for an establishment broadly supported in its basest enterprises by the mainstream.
▪ Berlusconi wants a new broadly supported government to look into constitutional reforms.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
broadly-based
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The company invests broadly, so that the risk is lessened.
▪ The federal law applies broadly to all medical devices.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He stepped back a pace, smiling broadly as he saw the young woman who stood before him, looking slightly surprised.
▪ In some school districts, the state constitution protects student expression more broadly than does Hazelwood.
▪ It was a case of finite time and brainpower too broadly dissipated, Taylor came to think.
▪ Once again, he shuffled the recalcitrant deck, smiling too broadly, compelling their attention.
▪ Some spoke of the need to have a press and a broadcasting service which discussed alternatives within broadly agreed policy frameworks.
▪ The big firms can also spread overheads such as marketing more broadly.
▪ The Realist perspective remains broadly the one described in this chapter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broadly

Broadly \Broad"ly\, adv. In a broad manner.

Wiktionary
broadly

adv. In a wide manner, liberally, in a loose sense.

WordNet
broadly

  1. adv. without regard to specific details or exceptions; "he interprets the law broadly" [syn: loosely, broadly speaking, generally] [ant: narrowly]

  2. in a wide fashion; "he smiled broadly"

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Usage examples of "broadly".

A broadly sinuous ambery crevice parted the globes, which by reflexive instinct poor Miss Medbury tried to close by contracting all her muscles in a useless defense.

Harry called to Coote as he zoomed past, but Coote, grinning broadly, chose to aim the next Bludger at Harper instead, who was just passing Harry in the opposite direction.

One of them, a dalesman by the roughspun tan tunic and breeches he wore, grinned broadly.

We are dealing here with a mechanism based on a double exclusion largely pertaining to this enumerative mania which we have already come across several times, and which I thought I could broadly define as a petit-bourgeois trait.

She could see Erk in the cockpit giving the thumbs-up sign and smiling broadly.

The simplest way of making a gradation from strong to pale colour is to dip one corner of a broad brush into the colour and the other corner into water so that the water just runs into the colour: then, by squeezing the whole width of the brush broadly between the thumb and forefinger so that most of the water is squeezed out, the brush is left charged with a tint gradated from side to side.

Ahau Katun, and having stated the desertion of Chichen Itza and the migration to Chakanputun, the chronicler draws a line, as if to separate broadly these occurrences from those which followed.

But Krone was smiling broadly, an ingratiating assistant waiting to be thanked.

As the old woman turned her back, Lucky Lummy grinned broadly and touched the tip of his tongue to his upper lip.

He had, natheless, one or two particular friends, such as him to whom this book is dedicated, and a few persons whom he knew he had seen before, but, broadly speaking, there were in his world of men, only his mistress, and--the almighty.

Habermasian framework is nonetheless broadly compatible with the phenomenology of contemplative religion is a conclusion I strongly support.

At first Rachet smiled broadly as he waved his handcuffed hands high over his head like a prizefight winner.

By the time the engineer arrived, the rest of the group was overwhelming Ries with compliments, and the fellow was grinning broadly.

He turned to see Sumi Chan, in black silk pajamas, standing with arms outstretched, smiling broadly.

Broadly speaking, the Twelvers are considered political quietists as opposed to the Zaydis who favor political activism, and the Ismailis who are identified with esoteric and gnostic religious doctrines.