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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wide-ranging
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an extensive/wide-ranging review
▪ He is currently conducting a wide-ranging review of public spending.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ The Decretio Childeberti from 594-6 is more wide-ranging still.
▪ Questions can therefore be more wide-ranging and open-ended.
▪ But some topics benefit from more wide-ranging comment before publication.
▪ Their knowledge and experience of drama will be far more wide-ranging than is commonly acknowledged.
most
▪ Their fleets soon arrived at Constantinople and the war promised to be the most wide-ranging since the fall of the first Napoleon.
■ NOUN
discussion
▪ A wide range of activities will stimulate wide-ranging discussion.
review
▪ The best part of the magazine is the wide-ranging review pages of cassette compilations, demos, flexi discs and singles.
▪ To the consternation of his cabinet colleagues, he is currently conducting a wide-ranging review of public spending.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a wide-ranging investigation
▪ A wide-ranging survey found growing dissatisfaction among workers.
▪ Climate change is likely to have a wide-ranging impact on human health.
▪ Her criticism was wide-ranging and sometimes contradictory.
▪ Our discussions were wide-ranging and substantive.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A wide-ranging inquiry into the qualities and styles of leaders.
▪ Arguments for controlling or reducing the size of public expenditure are wide-ranging but not always convincing.
▪ Given all this, however, the successors of Ecgfrith preserved and maintained a secure realm within what were still wide-ranging frontiers.
▪ It will mean that wide-ranging corporate risks will be able to be placed with just one underwriter.
▪ Such accounts provide detailed and wide-ranging analyses of the psychological and related discourses around these objects.
▪ The finished product rests in a glorious pop tradition not usually associated with a wide-ranging career like Young's.
▪ The latter part of the wide-ranging agreement has not yet been consummated.
▪ Urban politics itself is also a substantial subject and it too has received wide-ranging and systematic attention.
WordNet
wide-ranging

  1. adj. including much; "the pianist's wide-ranging repertoire"

  2. widely different; "varied motives prompt people to join a political party"; "varied ethnic traditions of the immigrants" [syn: varied]

Usage examples of "wide-ranging".

A comparison of his stages with my descriptions will show the very strong and wide-ranging correlations and similarities.

The redundancy, overlapping responsibilities, wide-ranging writs, and fierce rivalries among the security services make it hard to conceal a coup for long, which is why the vast majority have failed.

This was a nameless outfit, engaged in wide-ranging and mysterious tasks, intricately structured, operating outside the law, manipulating legislative and judicial branches of government (perhaps the executive branch as well), acting as judge and jury and executioner when it wished—.

But as autumn merged into winter, the Lord Commander of Horse recalled the wide-ranging units to the old campground near Manchester, and after issuing orders that all be ready for instant summons but in any case report to the present encampment no later than the first day of April, he dismissed them to their homes.

His OSS training had been wide-ranging and intensive but no one had ever thought it necessary that they should master the techniques of a high-wire circus acrobat.

Our provisional diagnosis is that he suffers from a wide-ranging, hyperallergic reaction to all forms of medication used so far.

They maintain that projects like Skylab, NASA's wide-ranging space laboratory launched in 1973, with its highly sensitive multi-spectral scanning system, will be vital in the location of desperately needed information on crop growth, mineral deposits, and atmosphere pollution in the battle to preserve our precious supplies.

Years after his return to human society, Holt had again essayed a return visit to the 'Reen, The nomads traveled a regular, if wide-ranging, circuit and he had found both the original band and his surviving surrogate parent.