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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wherever
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wherever you want
▪ You can park wherever you want.
where/wherever/whenever possible
▪ Choose wholemeal varieties of flour and pasta, where possible.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
possible
▪ Obviously remove or reduce the background noise wherever possible.
▪ But curricular and assessment arrangements should aim to raise expectations and to help to narrow the gap wherever possible.
▪ Perhaps we should be asking our local authorities to install wheelchair access gates in place of ordinary kissing gates wherever possible.
▪ None the less, start out with a master plan and wherever possible, use it.
▪ Purely in order to minimise costs, drafting meetings should be kept to a minimum and should wherever possible be restricted.
▪ We will however be publishing a special feature on the preliminary and first rounds, carrying score-cards and photographs wherever possible.
▪ In designing the programme, we have tried to emphasise the vocational aspects of the core skills modules wherever possible.
▪ In order to eliminate price exposure on other precious metal stocks we hedge the price wherever possible by forward sales.
■ VERB
go
▪ These warrants allow us to go wherever we wish.
▪ Here I can go wherever I want to without asking for permission...
▪ Working with missionaries, he went wherever he was needed, any time of the day or night.
▪ She was joining the Navy and she would go wherever they sent her.
▪ We were given permission to go wherever we wanted and cut down any tree that might suit us.
▪ It is a free agent once released into a burrow and is free to go wherever it feels inclined.
▪ My mind goes wherever it wants to go.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
whatever/wherever/anything etc you like
▪ Down the golden road, London and the world, life, whatever you like.
▪ I said they can call themselves anything they like, and I would still not engage one.
▪ I wished I could go back to the other way, when we could just do whatever we liked.
▪ Once you're online, you can use whatever you like.
▪ That is to say put anything you like on them, but don t be surprised if some one else reads them.
▪ They can do whatever they like provided that it is what the Treasury has already agreed.
▪ We can ask him whatever we like.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Wherever did you get that idea?
▪ You can sit wherever you want.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Free treatment through the Poor Law was still avoided by the poor wherever possible.
▪ I wonder if the law would require him to go home -- wherever home is -- after three years or so.
▪ It was the urban mob which ended the hesitations of the official classes wherever resistance was a possibility.
▪ Mary Jo, wherever you are, this is dedicated to you.
▪ None the less, start out with a master plan and wherever possible, use it.
▪ The one Moon reflects itself wherever there is a sheet of water.
▪ They thus called for a managerial policy to facilitate promotion earlier in life, linked to flexible retirement wherever possible.
▪ You can use the cell phone wherever the cell sites are in use.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wherever

Wherever \Wher*ev"er\, adv. At or in whatever place; wheresoever.

He can not but love virtue wherever it is.
--Atterbury.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wherever

late 13c., ware euere, from where + ever. Originally an emphatic extension of where. Meaning "at any place, at some place or another" is from 1660s.

Wiktionary
wherever

adv. (non-gloss definition: An emphatic form of) '''where'''. conj. 1 In or to whatever place; anywhere. 2 In all places; everywhere.

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WordNet
wherever

adv. in or at or to what place; "I know where he is"; "use it wherever necessary" [syn: where]

Usage examples of "wherever".

Sri magician into the bargain, I was fed and accommodated at no expense, and promised a ship to wherever I wished to journey.

The duty of the tutors was to follow or accompany the cadets wherever they went, Court included.

Wherever sediment did not accumulate on the bed of the sea, or where it did not accumulate at a sufficient rate to protect organic bodies from decay, no remains could be preserved.

Nadia brought in meat and vegetables and stored them away, Stevens attacked the problem of constructing the pair of tight-beam, auto-dirigible transmitter and receptor units which would connect his great turbo-alternator to the accumulators of their craft, wherever it might be in space.

Wherever traditional religions are united under the badge of philosophy a conservative syncretism is the result, because the allegoric method, that is, the criticism of all religion, veiled and unconscious of itself, is able to blast rocks and bridge over abysses.

Wherever she was, he was always aware of her, and at a whistle, a snap of the fingers, a beckoning gesture, even a nod, he was at her feet, looking up with adoration in his eves eagerly anticipating her least wish.

Like any other Architect of Tannahill, he would carry this little jewelled box with him wherever he went.

A DOI is a permanent identifier, analogous to a telephone number for life, so tomorrow and years from now a user can locate the product and related resources wherever they may have been moved or archived to.

I saw what happened in the lounge in that airport, wherever we were, Denver, just before the Astrodome riot.

Her parents had been the victims of a gang of trail bastons, a group of murderous thugs who robbed, murdered and looted wherever they could.

Six of them toppled immediately: masses of twitching, disorganized, heterogeneous matter that ruined the floor wherever they fell, warping and buckling it with blitter scars.

It suffices here to state that many of the treasures of Kew Gardens were first introduced to English flower lovers by him, and that out of his collections of seeds grew Brassey House, whose seeds are welcomed the world over wherever gardens grow.

But that would mean that the bulldozer had died, too, and gone with him to wherever he was.

The difference between the exoteric and the esoteric, formerly known to philosophers - among the Indians as among the Greeks, Persians, and Muslims, in short, wherever one believed in an order of rank and not in equality and equal rights - does not so much consist in this, that the exoteric approach comes from outside and sees, estimates, measures, and judges from the outside, not the inside: what is much more essential is that the exoteric approach sees things from below, the esoteric looks down from above.

Wherever anything in the pure spatial adjacency of physical things remains inexplicable, resort is had to hypothetical pictures whose content consists once more of nothing but spatially extended and spatially adjacent items.