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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
worldwide
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a world/global/worldwide recession
▪ America’s airlines have been badly hit by the world recession.
a worldwide audience
▪ The game has an ever-increasing worldwide audience.
a worldwide/global/international campaign
▪ a worldwide campaign for peace
an international/worldwide reputation
▪ The department has a worldwide reputation for its research.
an international/worldwide/global ban
▪ an international ban on trade in endangered species
an international/worldwide/global conspiracy
▪ Hitler believed there was a worldwide conspiracy to enslave Germany.
international/worldwide fame
▪ Edinburgh achieved international fame as a centre of medical education.
national/international/worldwide recognition
▪ Like many pianists, he first achieved international recognition by winning a competition.
worldwide sales
▪ Worldwide sales of wine are increasing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
computer
▪ Instead, a user dials into the Internet worldwide computer network and uses software and data that are stored there.
demand
▪ In a year of recession, Land Rover is taking on more staff and increasing production to cope with the worldwide demand.
▪ But if all goes well, it is projected to climb to 1 million a year to meet rising worldwide demand.
▪ As worldwide demand for its products stays flat and costs remain high, half-year profits have plunged 70% to £15.1m.
▪ Washington could get a lift in employment this year as Boeing increases production to meet worldwide demand for airplanes.
distribution
▪ Top: Eichhornia crassipes has a worldwide distribution, but requires a large tank.
▪ Today, lorries will roll out of Microsoft's factories for the worldwide distribution of its Windows 3.1 program.
▪ A first-class hub for MiLAN's growing, worldwide distribution network.
▪ The publication team are concerned with the worldwide distribution, with local inserts, of the material generated.
▪ It is expected to contribute its manufacturing expertise and worldwide distribution channels as well as its design know-how in areas such as screens.
market
▪ Later, it was taken up by the communications industry and developed into worldwide markets.
▪ Modern communications have created a truly worldwide market for major currencies.
▪ Much of the finished cloth and tailored clothes were exported to worldwide markets.
▪ The company say it has a 40% worldwide market share with 300 companies using its stuff.
network
▪ Which means more than adding new destinations to our worldwide network and advanced aircraft to our fleet.
▪ A worldwide network of short-wave stations with directional aerials was established, fulfilling Marconi's dream of global radio communication.
▪ Overseas members will be invited to participate in reviews at strategic centres in our worldwide network.
▪ In fact, Roddick has managed to achieve an astonishing uniformity with her worldwide network of shops.
▪ The accuracy of global field models depends on the worldwide network of magnetic observatories.
operation
▪ These policies are constantly reviewed, communicated to all employees and form a firm foundation for our worldwide operations.
▪ McCluskey had held the post of senior vice president of worldwide operations since July 1996.
recession
▪ Once the rationalisation programme is in place, Waterford will be well placed to become profitable once the worldwide recession ends.
▪ The group's short term future remains uncertain owing to the worldwide recession according to Mr Biggam.
reputation
▪ One thing is certain, as the competition increases, worldwide reputation for quality and service will pay dividends.
sale
▪ Vehicles that in the past would be designed in separate regions are now being developed on common platforms for worldwide sale.
▪ This is approximately one tenth of the worldwide sales of the the product.
▪ The company said earnings growth was fueled by stronger worldwide sales of pharmaceuticals and nutritional products, which includes infant formula.
▪ Children are being targeted in a huge merchandising campaign, with worldwide sales possibly topping £1.3 billion.
▪ Its also hired John DeArmon as director of strategic accounts and Simon Clephan as director of worldwide sales.
▪ The Z8Q is an 8-bit processor with worldwide sales.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a worldwide economic crisis
▪ a worldwide TV audience of over a billion people
▪ Campaigners are calling for a worldwide ban on the use of land mines.
▪ Many credit cards can be used worldwide.
▪ The concert attracted a worldwide television audience of over a billion people.
▪ There has been a worldwide decrease in the number of whales.
▪ There is a worldwide shortage of oil.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
worldwide

also world-wide, 1630s, from world + wide.

Wiktionary
worldwide

a. Spanning the world. adv. Throughout the world.

WordNet
worldwide
  1. adj. spanning or extending throughout the entire world; "worldwide distribution"; "a worldwide epidemic"

  2. involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis"; "of worldwide significance" [syn: global, planetary, world(a)]

  3. of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience" [syn: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal]

Wikipedia
Worldwide

Worldwide may refer to:

  • Worldwide (rapper)
  • Mr. Worldwide, a pseudonym of rapper Pitbull
  • Worldwide (Everything but the Girl album), 1991
  • Worldwide (Audio Adrenaline album), a 2003 Christian rock album
  • "Worldwide", a song on Outlawz's 2001 album Novakane
  • "Worldwide", a song by Big Time Rush on their album B.T.R.
Worldwide (Audio Adrenaline album)

Worldwide is the seventh full-length album released by Audio Adrenaline.

The album won 2004 Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album.

Worldwide (Everything but the Girl album)

Worldwide is the sixth album by Everything but the Girl, released on 1 October 1991. The Worldwide & The Acoustic EP's were reissued together by Edsel Records as a 2-disc Deluxe Set in 2012.

Worldwide (rapper)

Michael Parker, better known by the stage name Worldwide, is an independent rapper, emcee, music producer & hiphop artist from San Antonio, Texas.

In February 2012 he participated in a Red Bull sponsored tour of Texas featuring up-and-coming artists from the state such as Dallas duo A.Dd+ and fellow Central Texan rapper Kydd Jones. Worldwide opened for the Official XXL Freshmen Showcase for SXSW 2012, the StubHub Live Showcase with Big KRIT for SXSW 2013, was a performing artist for A3C 2012 & 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia and also performed at the Boiler Room Houston RapLife Showcase. He toured nationally alongside Rittz & the LOEGz in 2012, then toured nationally with Doughbeezy & Killa Kyleon in 2013. In 2014, Worldwide performed at the inaugural Weird City Hip-Hop Festival in Austin and coheadlined with Houston rap legends such as E.S.G. and K-Rino at the Optimo Radio Official SXSW Showcase. He released two projects in 2012, As the World Turns (which was later chopped and screwed by DJ Candlestick and OG Ron C) and Ga$ Money. In 2016, Worldwide released the Lets Talk About It EP with fellow San Antonio emcee Bamsworth Belli; he followed up with an LP, Castles Made Of Sand, later that year.

Worldwide (The Death Set album)

Worldwide is a studio album by The Death Set.

Usage examples of "worldwide".

Humanitarian awards for Barnstorm from four different national organizations, a Congressional Citation, a successful worldwide lecture tour, the naming of a Lunar crater in his honor, a Black Hole award, and a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

Long before the simulation or extrapolation technology was used for entertainment, it had been used by the early Gold School for predicting outcomes of political-economic policy decisions and of major data movements in worldwide memory space.

Lord argued, there were so many adverse possibilities, some of them compelling, that it became unreasonable and non-scientific to blame Montayne, especially when the worldwide record of Montayne was so immaculate and other probabilities so strong.

State Department notified all embassies of the terrorist threat and updated its worldwide public warning.

A synchronized worldwide campaign meant that it was the biggest book launch of all time, with pre-orders outselling any new book in US publishing history.

These are our letters, our words: they too can be modulated, broken, recoupled, redefined, co-polymerized one to the other in worldwide chains that will surface now and then over long molecular silences, like the seen parts of a tapestry.

Over the last twenty years, the worldwide net had come to be a midden of bogus sites and recursive fraudulence.

At a news conference broadcast worldwide on September 23, 2064, a Schimmel spokesman dropped a bombshell that for a few weeks made everyone forget Big Mickey.

July 1996, after worldwide protest over the activities of the Schor Foundation and Florida State University at the Sphinx, Dr.

While the capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed promises to yield considerable intelligence, the threat from the worldwide network of cells he directed remains significant!

In addition to being a TG bulletin board, Cross-Connection is also an Internet server for those wishing to cruise the transgendered boards worldwide.

And Sherman kept telling him not to worry about anything, not to try to get into the trivia of operations, telling him he had far more important work as the spiritual leader of the worldwide flock.

Since the 1950s, warfarin has been the chief rodent poison used worldwide.

Ladin understood better than most of the volunteers the extent to which the continuation and eventual success of the jihad in Afghanistan depended on an increasingly complex, almost worldwide organization.

One idea was to record the thoughts of various world leaders, and large packages of Beatles albums and Apple releases were shipped off to Mao Tse Tung, Fidel Castro, Indira Gandhi and others, together with an invitation to record a spoken-word album explaining their philosophy to a worldwide audience of young people.