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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
far-reaching
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
far-reaching changes (=important and having a great effect that will last a long time)
▪ The Internet has brought about far-reaching changes in the way we work.
far-reaching consequences (=important and affecting many things)
▪ The new law is sure to have far-reaching consequences.
far-reaching implications (=causing things to change in an important way)
▪ The cuts in social security benefits had far-reaching implications for ethnic minorities.
far-reaching/sweeping reforms (=reforms that affect many things or have a great effect)
▪ The new government instituted a series of far-reaching reforms.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ However, out work carries immense potential, even more far-reaching than our own lives.
▪ For knowledge of different worlds helped them to see challenges' with better, more far-reaching perspectives.
▪ This led to developments in both music and the Liturgy which were probably more far-reaching than the Council Fathers anticipated.
▪ But other organisations supporting traditional woodland management have more far-reaching objectives in mind.
▪ The connection between this form of critique and freedom is more far-reaching still.
▪ Only surrounded by an even more far-reaching particular manifestation of life, such a thing as the expression of sorrow or affection.
▪ The changes of the 1980s were more far-reaching than those of the 1930s.
▪ The study also suggests that there may be even more far-reaching effects of low fares.
most
▪ The most far-reaching omission was the lack of any firm commitment to a policy for integration.
▪ The most far-reaching change could be a cut in the capital gains tax.
▪ This means he must look for what had the most far-reaching effects.
▪ As Secretary of the Treasury you planted the seeds for the most far-reaching tax reform in our history.
▪ This, the most far-reaching of the bill's proposals, would have resulted in the prohibition of over 300 pesticides.
▪ New Labour, by contrast, has embarked on the most far-reaching programme of constitutional reform attempted in this country this century.
▪ We have not discussed what may well be the most far-reaching effect of the physical side of our courtship.
■ NOUN
change
▪ It has been paralleled by far-reaching changes in the ways in which politicians seek to influence their electorate.
▪ But it also has some serious drawbacks, especially during times of far-reaching change.
▪ Young people were already feeling insecure because of the far-reaching changes going on around them and the uncertainties about the reform programme.
▪ The most far-reaching change could be a cut in the capital gains tax.
▪ This is not surprising, since the effects of the industrial revolution were at this time causing far-reaching changes in society.
▪ But in the past twenty years there had been two far-reaching changes.
▪ In one area Tanucci did aim at far-reaching change.
consequence
▪ Virgo: an unexpected outing could have far-reaching consequences, bringing romance into your life.
▪ Sectorisation had especially far-reaching consequences for Railfreight.
▪ Debate over the far-reaching consequences of the attempted confiscation action should not die with their acquittal.
▪ It was a defeat which was to have profound and far-reaching consequences for state medical regulation of sexuality.
▪ When this appears to happen literally the child may feel a guilt that can have far-reaching consequences.
▪ The constituency agitation had far-reaching consequences.
▪ The disintegration of the left's main power-base will have far-reaching consequences.
▪ Failure to communicate successfully will have far-reaching consequences - bad reviews, the need to repeat a class.
effect
▪ This means he must look for what had the most far-reaching effects.
▪ This radical break with tradition had far-reaching effects on the tone and substance of the poetry.
▪ Nevertheless it can have a far-reaching effect on the lives of those identified as known or suspected abusers.
▪ We have not discussed what may well be the most far-reaching effect of the physical side of our courtship.
▪ The study also suggests that there may be even more far-reaching effects of low fares.
impact
▪ But either way, its offering of a database engine will have an enormous and far-reaching impact.
implication
▪ The outcome will set a precedent with far-reaching implications for the whole restitution process.
▪ That could have far-reaching implications for the country.
▪ Much of this reflects the entrenched acute-service bias of the National Health Service, and major change would have far-reaching implications.
▪ Monkey business A legal case in Los Angeles County may have far-reaching implications for the rights of our closest non-human relatives.
▪ These different views of who the clients are also have far-reaching implications for how we organise the delivery of care.
▪ Important innovations were introduced by the 1919 Act, which were to have far-reaching implications.
▪ This strange argument has far-reaching implications for understanding Freud's theory as being a social one.
reform
▪ Among his many far-reaching reforms, Gorbachev effected a transfer of power from Communist Party to executive presidency.
▪ The new government provoked widespread rebellion by instituting a series of far-reaching reforms in a brutal and disorganised manner.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a far-reaching law on environmental protection
▪ The court's decision will have far-reaching implications for the health care industry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As Secretary of the Treasury you planted the seeds for the most far-reaching tax reform in our history.
▪ Debate over the far-reaching consequences of the attempted confiscation action should not die with their acquittal.
▪ New Labour, by contrast, has embarked on the most far-reaching programme of constitutional reform attempted in this country this century.
▪ The effect of these changes will be far-reaching and transport will, in many respects, be at the sharp end.
▪ Usually though, to make far-reaching decisions correctly and capitalise on opportunity, vital intelligence is essential.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
far-reaching

far-reaching \far-reaching\ adj. having a wide range or effect; as, far-reaching (or extensive) forests; a far-reaching reform.

Syn: extensive.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
far-reaching

1808, from far (adv.) + present participle of reach (v.).

Wiktionary
far-reaching

a. Having a broad or widespread range, scope or influence.

WordNet
far-reaching

adj. having broad range or effect; "had extensive press coverage"; "far-reaching changes in the social structure"; "sweeping reforms" [syn: extensive, sweeping]

Usage examples of "far-reaching".

Men of courtly nurture, heirs to the polish of a far-reaching ancestry, here, with their dauntless hardihood, put to shame the boldest sons of toil.

An orchestra, discreetly subdued but innumerable, of crickets and cicalas, accompanies them in an unceasing tremolo--the immense, far-reaching tremolo, which, gentle and eternal, never ceases in Japan.

The cryptogram that he and a youthful colleague, Nigel de Grey, had partially read was to become the single most far-reaching and most important solution in history.

John Doar, whose brutish character was well-suited to his task of bringing so-called articles of impeachment against the president, was the author and finisher of one of the most far-reaching ILLEGAL domestic surveillance counterintelligence operations ever run in the United States.

But the most far-reaching of his achievements was the elaboration, about 1859, jointly with G.

I felt was a filarious frostification at the far-reaching fistula into which fate had feductively fastinguished me.

In the eyes of this latter infidelity history is not a procession or a progression, but only a series of disconnected pictures, each little era rounded with its own growth, fruitage, and decay, a series of incidents or experiments, without even the string of a far-reaching purpose to connect them.

The superior manner in which Clementine had applied the story of Hebe convinced me not only that she had a profound knowledge of mythology, but also that she had a keen and far-reaching intellect.

So far-reaching a change could not however be brought about piecemeal, but only by the general wish of all the Governments now serving His Majesty.

The front windows looked out over a far-reaching spread of green glades and valleys, and tumbled hills clothed with forests--a noble solitude unvexed by the fussy world.

The Fair Realm was and remains a perilous land, aye, and in it were snares for the unwatchful and prison towers for the foolhardy, but it was far-reaching and unfathomed and lofty and filled with many things: all kinds of birds and beasts, shoreless oceans and stars beyond measure, beauty that is spellbinding and dangerous, gramarye both rich and strange, joyousness and sorrow as piercing as any Dainnan blade.

DARK HARBOR Building House and Home On An Enchanted Island CONTINENTS OF EXILE by VED MEHTA BOOK JACKET INFORMATION When Ved Mehta was first invited to Islesboro, a narrow, thirteen-mile-long island off the coast of Maine, he could not have imagined the far-reaching consequences of his visit.

If society moves away from the body-as-person concept, and instead accepts social personhood, it could lead to far-reaching changes, including granting personhood status to uploaded human consciousness and brains maintained outside of bodies, or transplanted into synthetic bodies.

A few refugees had reached the Wtasi Empire to the east, on the Salten Sea, after all this time, and the word they brought of far-reaching consequences of the double explosion was terrible.

It is difficult for one not predisposed toward the occult and even strongly prejudiced against it to deny in alleged spiritistic phenomena a challenging residuum which may in the end compel far-reaching modifications in the conclusions both of science and psychology.