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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nationwide
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a national/nationwide campaign
▪ The walk was part of a national campaign to raise £900,000.
a national/nationwide chain
▪ He was head of a national chain of grocery stores.
a national/nationwide strike (=all over the country)
▪ In April 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers called a national strike.
a nationwide appeal
▪ The missing 15-year-old was found yesterday after a nationwide appeal for help.
a nationwide search (=in every part of a country)
▪ Kim was missing for two months, prompting a nationwide search.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
election
▪ Meanwhile, political and ethnic strife in Bosnia have steadily mounted in the run-up to nationwide elections there on September 14.
network
▪ We are well qualified and equipped to do this through our committed and trained people and our nationwide network of local offices.
▪ The fear is that a nationwide network of police computers could swap unsubstantiated gossip and suspicion about individuals.
▪ Ellis was trapped after Liverpool trading standards officers, posing as dealers, smashed a nationwide network of underground sellers.
poll
▪ Another nationwide poll taken last month by the Los Angeles Times gave the Democrats a seven-point edge.
▪ It is likely to be its party chairman Gennady Zyuganov, who now leads nationwide polls for president.
protest
▪ So effective was their network that pro-democracy groups were able to organise two unusual nationwide protests.
▪ Rabbi Wise called for nationwide protests.
▪ Beida was slow to become involved, but their ultimate participation completed the final link in the nationwide protest.
▪ Opposition leaders said they would try to stage nationwide protests, but previous opposition rallies have met only lukewarm support.
search
▪ A £100,000 nationwide search, involving a helicopter, was launched.
▪ Her disappearance prompted a nationwide search.
▪ Her successor would be selected after a nationwide search, and a thorough vetting by the appropriate parish committees.
▪ Will interim athletic director Paul Bubb be deemed the most-qualified candidate after a nationwide search is conducted?
▪ The horrifying news sent the Ciprianos on a nationwide search to find the best possible treatment for their daughter.
▪ Klaas was missing for two months, prompting a nationwide search.
▪ A nationwide search was under way for a typical coed.
strike
▪ Industrial action On June 6, 1990, there was a 24-hour nationwide strike to protest against the latest austerity measures.
▪ Since nearly all passenger trains included Pullmans, a nationwide strike resulted.
▪ May 24 saw further nationwide strikes and demonstrations in 12 cities.
survey
▪ It is one of the findings of a nationwide survey carried out by the Bitumen Association.
▪ A subject chosen following a nationwide survey. £60,000 advertising campaign.
▪ A nationwide survey completed May 16 showed that Clinton is reaping a political windfall with support from women.
▪ The latest nationwide survey showed Clinton defeating Dole 56 percent to 39 percent in a hypothetical two-way race.
television
▪ The President announced this action and explained its background to a startled nation over nationwide television on 22 October.
tour
▪ Yorick had wanted the Hammersmith Odeon for his comeback concert, followed by a nationwide tour of Britain's major cities.
▪ The eighty-three year old Nobel Peace prize winner is currently on a nationwide tour.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
nationwide/city-wide etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A nationwide hunt was launched yesterday for the killer of 13-year-old Nicola Jones.
▪ The case got nationwide attention.
▪ We have 350 sales outlets nationwide.
▪ Workers held nationwide strikes and demonstrations all over Spain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A period of nationwide mourning was declared for Jan. 23-28.
▪ May 24 saw further nationwide strikes and demonstrations in 12 cities.
▪ The nationwide initiative in evangelism, another of his personally inspired outreach projects, showed similar faults.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nationwide

1915, from nation + wide.

Wiktionary
nationwide

a. Extending throughout a nation. adv. Throughout a nation.

WordNet
nationwide
  1. adj. occurring or extending throughout a country or nation; "the event aroused nationwide interest"; "a countrywide fund-raising campaign" [syn: countrywide]

  2. adv. extending throughout an entire nation; "nationally advertised"; "it was broadcast nationwide" [syn: nationally, across the nation, across the country]

Wikipedia
Nationwide

Nationwide may refer to:

Nationwide (Irish TV programme)

Nationwide is a television programme shown in Ireland each Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening at 19:00. Produced by RTÉ Cork, and broadcast on RTÉ One for around 30 minutes, it is presented by Anne Cassin and Mary Kennedy. Nationwide focuses on human interest stories and cultural events across the country.

Nationwide (TV programme)

Nationwide is a former BBC News and current affairs television programme which ran from 9 September 1969 until 5 August 1983. It was broadcast on BBC One each weekday following the early evening news. It followed a magazine format, combining political analysis and discussion with consumer affairs, light entertainment and sports reporting. It began on 9 September 1969, running between Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6.00pm, before being extended to five days a week in 1972. From 1976 until 1981 the start time was 5:55pm. The final edition was broadcast on 5 August 1983, and the following October it was replaced by Sixty Minutes. The long-running Watchdog programme began as a Nationwide feature.

The light entertainment was quite similar in tone to That's Life!. Eccentric stories featured skateboarding ducks and men who claimed that they could walk on egg shells. (In fact, the show's tendency to sidestep serious matters in favour of light pieces was famously spoofed in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, where the show, instead of reporting on the opening of the Third World War, chose to feature a story about a "theory" that sitting down in a comfortable chair rests one's legs). Richard Stilgoe performed topical songs.

The programme's famous brass and strings theme music The Good Word was composed by Johnny Scott.

After the introduction and round-up, the BBC regions opted out for a twenty-minute section for local news round ups ( Midlands Today, Points West, Wales Today, Look East, etc.) Once they had handed back to Lime Grove Studios in London, the regions remained on standby to participate in feedback and two-way interviews to be transmitted across the whole BBC network.

For all of its run, Nationwide provided the regional news for the BBC London/South East region, as this region was the only BBC region not to have its own dedicated regional news team. When other regions had their local news programme, the Nationwide presenters provided the latest news and weather for the London and South East region from the Nationwide studio. This situation would last until 1984.

The show was used in an influential cultural/ media studies project at the University of Birmingham, known as The Nationwide Project.

Nationwide (album)

Nationwide is the debut album of Surgery, released in 1990 through Amphetamine Reptile Records.

Usage examples of "nationwide".

Now, with her promotion, she could concentrate more on hard news, which was more compatible with her immediate goal of becoming an evening anchorperson either here in Dallas or in some other major market, which she hoped would be a stepping-stone to a network position or a cable job that provided nationwide exposure.

Hoffa cites the huge number of members the Teamsters have-in Cuyahoga County, in Ohio, and nationwide.

Nationwide and even international cleaning services like Merry Maids, Molly Maids, and The Maids International, all of which have arisen since the seventies, now control 20-25 percent of the housecleaning business.

As the Secret Service swung into anti-hacker operation nationwide in 1990, Kapor watched every move with deep skepticism and growing alarm.

Shortly after surrender, students at a high school in Mito city at-tracted nationwide attention by boycotting classes and forcing their militaristic principal to resign.

He played for a packed house in the main auditorium of the Arts Complex, with the program televised nationwide via the noncommercial channels.

California was the last great bastion of the Believers, and if they could not stop Ben Raines and his Rebels here, their cause would be lost nationwide.

On May 1, the American Federation of Labor, now five years old, called for nationwide strikes wherever the eight-hour day was refused.

Even while they were showering praise upon him for some brain wave they seemed to realize that in Tim Willows they did not have a willing worker for whom the honor and the glory of the Nationwide Advertising Agency, Inc.

This transaction started a practice of shipping burgers to distant fans that lasted for thirty years until White Castle began marketing frozen hamburgers in grocery stores nationwide.

In a minute listen, made headlines recently when a small dog named Spot, trapped in its interstices, was killed when the towering structure was struck by lightning, provoking a nationwide outpouring of grief.

Teachers should be rewarded on the basis of performance -especially student performance on standardized, nationwide tests, and improvements in student performance on such tests from one year to the next.

For the first time in all the years that the country had celebrated Columbus Day, there were nationwide protests against honoring a man who had kidnapped, enslaved, mutilated, murdered the natives who greeted his arrival with gifts and friendship.

The New Conservative government agreed in principle that nationwide road refurbishment should be given priority, coating the millions of kilometres of tarmac with a layer of rough thermo-cured cellulose, but they were hanging back until giga-conductor-powered vehicles became widespread before starting.

His plan was to organize a permanent mass movement on a nationwide basis and to conduct protests, marches, and boycotts.