Crossword clues for widespread
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
widespread
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a common/general/widespread assumption
▪ There’s a common assumption that science is more difficult than other subjects.
a common/popular/widespread belief (=that a lot of people believe)
▪ There is a common belief that educational standards are declining.
a common/widespread/frequent complaint
▪ A common complaint of children is that parents do not listen to them.
a widespread misunderstanding (=a misunderstanding that many people share)
▪ There is a widespread misunderstanding of the purpose of the law.
a widespread rumour
▪ The arrests followed widespread rumours of police corruption.
extensive/widespread (=covering a large area)
▪ Because of the size of the bomb, the damage was extensive.
extensive/wide/widespread coverage
▪ Newpapers and magazines have wide coverage of diet and health topics.
general/popular/widespread expectations (=shared by a lot of people)
▪ The general expectation was for married couples to have children.
severe/widespread famine
▪ Widespread famine had triggered a number of violent protests.
widespread anger (=among many people)
▪ The decision to build the airport has provoked widespread anger.
widespread concern
▪ There seems to be widespread concern about the state of our hospitals.
widespread corruption
▪ The election campaign was marred by widespread corruption.
widespread criticism
▪ There was widespread criticism of his speech.
widespread destruction
▪ The rains caused widespread destruction to crops.
widespread discontent
▪ There is widespread discontent at the quality of education.
widespread opposition (=opposition from many people or in many places)
▪ Journalists have reported widespread opposition to the regime.
widespread resentment (=felt by a lot of people or in many places)
▪ The actions of the police during the miners' strike caused widespread resentment.
widespread speculation
▪ There was widespread speculation about his political plans.
widespread unemployment (=in many places)
▪ The collapse of the currency led to widespread unemployment.
widespread unrest (=existing in many places or among many people)
▪ As prices soared, there was widespread unrest.
widespread/extensive use (=when something is used in many places or situations, or among many people)
▪ The widespread use of computers changed business completely.
widespread/wide popularity (=with a lot of people, or in many places)
▪ Astrology enjoyed widespread popularity.
widespread/wide publicity
▪ The scandal had received widespread publicity.
widespread/wide/general support
▪ There is widespread support for the Government’s proposal.
wide/widespread/extensive consultation (=involving a lot of people, groups etc)
▪ Strong recommendations were made after wide consultation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
how
▪ This year's Royal Show showed how widespread this move to cut costs is.
▪ We see here how widespread and deadly is the net of secularisation that has been cast.
▪ That was a huge overstatement, but it at least demonstrates how widespread the discourse of political radicalism had become.
▪ Many other films released at this time showed how widespread were the skills developed by Hepworth.
▪ One of the burning questions as I slowly began to learn about the disease, was how widespread was it within me?
▪ Through the report, Tickle illustrated how widespread the problem is.
▪ Until recently, it was not appreciated how widespread this kind of behaviour is, mainly because of the difficulty of egg-detection.
▪ Yvonne was so shocked at how widespread the problem was that she has installed a hotline in her gym.
more
▪ The use of the Official Secrets Act against government employees and others became more widespread.
▪ Why this didn't happen in a more widespread fashion in Tucson, I can't possibly imagine.
▪ Meanwhile, a different and much more widespread tradition of timekeeping survived involving the use of fire and incense.
▪ Stony deserts and mountainsides, much more widespread than Lichtenstein's.
▪ Concern about nephrotoxicity has been the major factor limiting more widespread investigational use of cyclosporin in ulcerative colitis.
▪ In the earlier phase the coin is concentrated in Kent, but later they have a more widespread distribution.
▪ But other forms eventually arose which were able to extract hydrogen from a very much more widespread source - water.
▪ Their experience of other drugs was also more widespread than young people in other countries.
most
▪ Despite being one of the commonest and most widespread birds in Britain, until recently it had not been studied in detail.
▪ Comments: This is perhaps the most widespread Cryptocoryne species found in Sri Lanka.
▪ The most widespread forms of modern print media are newspapers, magazines, books, and letters.
▪ Arsenic is one of the most widespread naturally occurring poisons.
▪ It was Northridge that caused the most widespread damage, seismologists said, because its epicenter was directly beneath the city.
▪ One of the most widespread expressions of the colleague contract is compadrazgo.
so
▪ Perhaps in this case the injunction can be ignored since the pattern is so widespread and so instinctively attractive.
▪ The disaster was so widespread that even Bridgeport and the rest of the Eleventh Ward elected a Republican alderman.
▪ The type of fans the show attracted was so widespread.
▪ One mystery concerns how the fungus has been able to move from butternut to butternut, since these trees are so widespread.
▪ Because the eggs are so small and so widespread it is easy for them to be swallowed.
▪ But his basic belief was so widespread that gay men themselves sometimes used it as a come-on.
▪ The central issue is that racism is so widespread that it is institutionalized.
▪ Because the fungus is now so widespread, it is unlikely that it can be stopped with fungicides.
still
▪ In fact employer contribution holidays are still widespread.
▪ While there is still widespread confidence that an agreement will be reached, the timing is far from certain.
▪ They are better educated and more informed - though illiteracy is still widespread among the poor.
▪ Even after a thousand years or more, evidence of pagan beliefs is still widespread in churches.
▪ There is still widespread ignorance about Sickle Cell Anaemia and the chances of passing it on.
very
▪ This practice was very widespread in Kursk as opposed to the Smolensk guberniia.
▪ It is very widespread and can have real social consequences.
▪ It is not generally emphasised in textbooks, however, how very widespread these sediments are.
▪ So the early Carboniferous was again a time of very widespread carbonate deposition.
▪ There is only one living genus of horsetails - Equisetum - although its many species are very widespread.
▪ Dichograptus species are very widespread in the early Ordovician rocks.
▪ All our actions gained very widespread publicity.
▪ This idea was very widespread in the nineteenth century for a variety of reasons.
■ NOUN
acceptance
▪ There is, it is heartening to note, quite widespread acceptance that language is significant in all subject areas.
▪ The final deterrent to widespread acceptance of encryption is its difficulty to use.
▪ This may seem surprising in view of the widespread acceptance of monarchy.
▪ Marquez had expected an immediate and widespread acceptance, but only a few rallied to his standard.
▪ Many of the new hymn books include worship songs and they find widespread acceptance.
▪ Nor has there been widespread acceptance of his proposed cures.
▪ Worship songs are also beginning to find widespread acceptance.
▪ As the code gained widespread acceptance, certain logical consequences followed in its wake.
adoption
▪ Another is that its method of valuation was too complex and this would detract from its widespread adoption.
▪ This does not condemn interactive multimedia to death, but it does suggest a slower-than-expected scenario for widespread adoption.
▪ The widespread adoption of a rigorous and effective pre-trial review?
▪ The widespread adoption of floating exchange rates increased the uncertainty and risk associated with international trade and investment.
▪ This has contributed to the widespread adoption and acceptance of Swahili.
agreement
▪ The Tomlinson report's description of the inadequacy of primary and community health services in London commands widespread agreement.
▪ The survey also found widespread agreement that felons and known drug users should be barred from owning guns.
▪ Finds widespread agreement that the government should take the lead in securing the re-use of contaminated land.
▪ There is widespread agreement that there are many mentally disturbed people in prison who would be better off in hospital.
▪ Already there was widespread agreement that clozapine had exceptional properties, with some spectacular remissions even in long-term patients.
▪ Although a rational approach may produce the best policy, there may not be widespread agreement on it.
belief
▪ The findings led to a widespread belief that psychological tests were situation specific and therefore limited in their usefulness for personnel selection.
▪ It provides a startling point for a discussion of the widespread belief that Richard Nixon was a brilliant maker of foreign policy.
▪ Professor Budd's remarks echo a widespread belief in the City that the Government needs to develop a credible monetary strategy.
▪ Protestant endeavours to extinguish popular superstitions and the widespread belief in magical remedies also proved largely futile.
▪ But, despite a widespread belief, this is not due to job insecurity.
▪ Especially in the United States, a widespread belief exists that people should actively seek ways of developing themselves.
▪ There is a widespread belief that the Age of Enlightenment has run its course.
▪ It refers to the resurgence of manufacturing during the 1980s and the mistaken but widespread belief that manufacturing is still shrinking.
concern
▪ Mr. King Is my right hon. Friend aware of the widespread concern at the large number of people seeking political asylum?
▪ Feinstein shares the widespread concern about identity theft and the creation of profiles or dossiers on individuals without their knowledge.
▪ I think it is a pretty widespread concern.
▪ The scale of the problem may not be so great as to cause widespread concern for the rural child, however.
▪ There is widespread concern about the effects of the financial futures market on the equity market.
▪ At the time, the far right's surprise breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt caused widespread concern.
▪ There was widespread concern about the effect of the movies and over 30 states began to draft censorship bills.
condemnation
▪ But the sentence imposed ast Northamptyon Crown Court brought widespread condemnation.
corruption
▪ The general demoralization of Soviet society during the Brezhnev period affected the militia also and by the 1980s widespread corruption was reported.
▪ This money helped to fuel the widespread corruption that has been so glaring under the Yeltsin regime.
▪ There has been widespread corruption in the ivory trade.
▪ They were determined to stop the widespread corruption that had discredited government contracting.
▪ He said those efforts were plagued by widespread corruption and official indifference.
criticism
▪ In response to widespread criticism, Kadhafi strongly attacked corruption and favouritism in the government administration.
▪ Her allegations have touched off widespread criticism of Albert Hale in the Navajo Nation.
▪ This follows widespread criticism of the Bush Administration's scepticism at international conferences so far.
▪ Nevertheless, there was widespread criticism that the relief operation was slow and badly organized.
▪ Despite widespread criticism, the trend is on the increase in the Five Nations Championship.
▪ There was widespread criticism of the handling of the disaster.
damage
▪ The storm caused widespread damage and heavy flooding, disrupting services and communications.
▪ It was Northridge that caused the most widespread damage, seismologists said, because its epicenter was directly beneath the city.
▪ An assessment is under way of some of the most important coastal sites and already widespread damage has been found.
▪ The last few years have seen widespread damage to homes through storms, floods, extreme cold and subsidence caused by drought.
▪ A few unsprayed crops might survive providing most are sprayed but if none was sprayed, widespread damage would ensure in some years.
discontent
▪ But in spite of a pretty widespread discontent with education as it is, there is no clear view of what it should be.
dissatisfaction
▪ There was widespread dissatisfaction too for the degenerate lifestyle into which many of the clergy had fallen.
▪ It is the withdrawal of this assurance that contributes to the widespread dissatisfaction with home life in a tower block.
▪ Perhaps it is time the autonomous practitioners themselves sought a solution to a widespread dissatisfaction with their service.
▪ Spoiled ballots accounted for 32 %, indicating the widespread dissatisfaction at the electoral process.
▪ Gallup has found widespread dissatisfaction with the quality of society.
▪ And so, by 1977, there was pretty widespread dissatisfaction with education in all its forms.
▪ There was, in particular, deep and widespread dissatisfaction with the mathematical attainments of children at school.
▪ Initiatives undertaken in response to the widespread dissatisfaction with residential care have led to a general improvement in the quality of services.
famine
▪ It could mean permanent coastal flooding in some countries and widespread famine in others.
fear
▪ There are also widespread fears that the convicted men will serve only a few months of their sentences.
▪ There had been widespread fears of police violence, and water cannon had already been used against demonstrators on Saturday.
▪ He said there were widespread fears that the Home Secretary wanted to replace locally-elected police authorities with government-appointed boards.
feeling
▪ Why does he not take note of that widespread feeling?
▪ Following this calamity, there was a widespread feeling of discontent in the country.
▪ There was, however, a widespread feeling that very large armies were undesirable because they were difficult to supply and manoeuvre.
interest
▪ We welcome the widespread interest that has been shown by management.employee teams in developing bids for their companies.
▪ The collection of earrings, brooches and necklaces have attracted widespread interest from buyers at the International Spring Fair.
▪ Once again, however, it took the fears engendered by the Boer War to arouse widespread interest in the issue.
▪ The Cove in Gilmerton has aroused widespread interest from local historians.
▪ Moreover, both parties found it impossible to sustain widespread interest in political organization.
▪ This, and other attention-getting highlights, was to spark off widespread interest.
opposition
▪ Again, despite widespread opposition from many sections of the community, the clause became part of the final legislation.
▪ The attempt to legitimise Renville met widespread opposition.
▪ Neither in the industrial nor the electoral sphere, then, was there any measurable and widespread opposition to the National government.
▪ The farmer who lives at nearby Eastbach Farm has applied for permission to dump rubbish despite widespread opposition from the village.
practice
▪ At that time there was a widespread practice of holding the child over a newspaper for passing a motion.
▪ We also campaigned against the widespread practice of pregnancy tests by employers and the dismissal of pregnant women.
▪ The case also highlights the widespread practice of arbitrary detention that affects about 2 million people each year.
▪ Pied-fly numbers have increased dramatically since nest box provision has become widespread practice in the sessile oak woods they prefer.
▪ One of the most flagrant abuses in this regard is the widespread practice of multiple recovery surgery ....
▪ Another widespread practice consists in striking the hands against other parts of the body, used directly as resonators.
problem
▪ Groping on rush-hour trains is also a widespread problem.
▪ Iron deficiency anemia, as evidenced by a high prevalence of low hemoglobin levels, was a widespread problem.
▪ Land fragmentation, as a result of inheritance laws and social custom, compounds the widespread problem of small farm size.
▪ Specialty retailers' weakness reflected the widespread problems throughout the retail sector.
▪ Somehow this extremely widespread problem needed to be swept away.
publicity
▪ Perhaps we should consider giving widespread publicity to the Audit Commission's account of the Government's failings.
▪ He returned a week later, after widespread publicity, with more than twenty thousand marchers, who demonstrated peaceably.
▪ In the 1980s a series of scandals received widespread publicity.
▪ Several contracts were awarded to private contractors especially in cleansing - and the whole issue attracted widespread publicity.
▪ All our actions gained very widespread publicity.
▪ Split-brain studies have science fiction overtones which have led to their widespread publicity in more recent times.
support
▪ A representative of the licencing board said that there's widespread support in Glasgow for the proposal.
▪ In the north, the party can count on fairly widespread support.
▪ The coterie of would-be revolutionaries commanded no widespread support.
▪ The movement attracted widespread support from peace campaigners.
▪ In this case there was widespread support and sympathy from the overtaxed gentry and clergy.
▪ It has widespread support in the House as far as it goes, but missing is legislation to protect against victimisation.
▪ But there is also widespread support for state or collective provision of welfare even over tax cuts.
▪ Does he accept that there is widespread support from industry and the community generally for the Government's roads programme?
use
▪ BIndustry spokesmen argue that encouraging widespread use of unconnected phones would lead to mischief and abuse.
▪ I also found widespread use of goals, measurement, and feedback through scoreboards.
▪ Some are mainly of laboratory interest but others are clearly related to substances in more or less widespread use.
▪ Whether the technology ever will gain widespread use is uncertain.
▪ But how can we best explain the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs in cycling?
▪ By now scientists were supposed to have discovered the formula for widespread use of solar technology here in the sunshine state.
▪ The most notable of these is the widespread use of popular theatre throughout the region.
▪ The main obstacle to the widespread use of abatement techniques is the significant and variable national costs which are incurred.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ethiopia was suffering widespread famine and disease.
▪ Government corruption is widespread in the country.
▪ Heavy rains have led to the most widespread flooding in a decade.
▪ Poverty in the region is widespread.
▪ Racism is much more widespread than people imagine.
▪ Thanks to the widespread availability of antibiotics diseases such as typhoid have largely been eradicated.
▪ the widespread use of computers
▪ The airlines' failures were in part caused by widespread concern about air safety.
▪ The practice of adding preservatives to basic foods is widespread.
▪ The report claimed that the problem of police brutality was widespread.
▪ There was now widespread public support for healthcare reform.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is very widespread and can have real social consequences.
▪ Some other local housing authorities such as Islington or Walsall are pursuing schemes of widespread decentralisation of housing management.
▪ Sometimes they echo time-honoured memories of widespread flooding in the region following the end of the last ice age.
▪ Stories of torture, murder and mass rape are widespread.
▪ The 1662 Act of Settlement turned this widespread local practice into the law of the land.
▪ The farmer who lives at nearby Eastbach Farm has applied for permission to dump rubbish despite widespread opposition from the village.
▪ The League says Swindon's football has earned them widespread admiration this season and Hoddle is a suitable and exciting choice.
▪ There is widespread support for completing that road at the earliest opportunity.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Widespread
Widespread \Wide"spread`\, a. Spread to a great distance; widely extended; extending far and wide; as, widespread wings; a widespread movement.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
widespread
a. affect a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
WordNet
widespread
adj. widely circulated or diffused; "a widespread doctrine"; "widespread fear of nuclear war"
distributed over a considerable extent; "far-flung trading operations"; "the West's far-flung mountain ranges"; "widespread nuclear fallout" [syn: far-flung]
Usage examples of "widespread".
The anticlericalism of the philosophes was widespread in the late eighteenth century, especially among the upper classes, even among certain aristocratic clergymen.
Another important effect of Iranian rule was the disappearance of the Mesopotamian languages and the widespread use of Aramaic, the official language of the empire.
She could only guess at the location, but its presence so far from either Bangkok or the northern border suggested that the communist insurrection was far more widespread and better organized than anyone had realized.
When Barnett made his interposition speech on September 13, 104AN AMERICAN INSURRECTION Bobby Kennedy and his Department of Justice team assumed that Mississippi state officials and police forces could try to block Meredith and the marshals, possibly triggering widespread public disorder, which would require a much larger military force.
And then there was that day in the far past when she had run to Simon Bentwood, the farmer, after hearing that his wife had died, feeling that his arms would be widespread to greet her.
Muslim owner of a bidi shop had spread the word all along Sophia Zuber Road that a blond American movie star, naked to her waist, had licked a cow and thereby caused widespread rioting among the sensitive Hindu population.
The religious significance which some have seen in totemistic customs is denied by others, while there is much disagreement as to the probability of their having been widespread in Europe.
The opinion of the Court extends the logic of the holding to any widespread public interest.
His hands are too widespread to extract him by means of the portable gates -- that is, unless we are willing to sacrifice his forearms, a decision I am not ready to make.
Although Glagolitic is a formal script reserved chiefly for religious writing and unsuitable for widespread use, these monuments are nevertheless the beginning of vernacular literacy and literature among the Croats.
It was no longer a secret that my wife had defected to the East in an elaborate and successful scheme that had encouraged widespread grassroots opposition to the communist rulers.
The Manatee inhabits the African and American coasts, along the west coast of the former continent, and in the bays, inlets, and rivers of tropical America, but the one with which we have to do is the dugong or halicore, of which the distribution is rather widespread, from the Red Sea and East African coasts to the west coast of Australia.
A second exhibit of the same kind is furnished by the flood of paper money laws and other measures of like intent which the widespread debtor class forced through the great majority of the state assemblies in the years following the general collapse of values in 1780.
When he recovered his senses, she had risen off him, had freed his flaccid organ and now sat between his legs, connected only via her rectal tongue, leaning forward with elbows supported above him on widespread knees.
Although the high price of the multichannel imaging machines has kept them from gaining widespread acceptance, in the long run they have the potential to reduce health-care costs substantially.