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View synonyms for worldwide

worldwide

or world-wide

[ wurld-wahyd ]

adjective

  1. throughout the world; extending or spread throughout the world:

    A few years later, the Beatles had skyrocketed to worldwide fame.

    This position will require you to travel worldwide.



worldwide

/ ˈwɜːldˈwaɪd /

adjective

  1. applying or extending throughout the world; universal


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Word History and Origins

Origin of worldwide1

First recorded in 1625–35; world ( def ) + -wide ( def )

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Example Sentences

The layoffs, which began yesterday, will affect employees worldwide, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Wireless carriers worldwide are spending tens of billions of dollars to upgrade their networks to 5G, which ultimately should provide download speeds 10 to 100-times faster than the average 4G speed.

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Before coronavirus, Nintendo said it would sell 19 million Switches worldwide in 2020, but many analysts expect the company to sell more.

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Ant owns the digital payments platform Alipay, which has 900 million users in China and over 1 billion worldwide.

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Counting companies outside of the United States, Saudi Aramco went public last year and briefly traded at a stock market value over $2 trillion, the first time a public company hit the mark worldwide.

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Imam Bheel, as locals call him, was added to a list of worldwide traffickers subject to U.S. sanctions in 2009.

Decorative yes, but a daily handbag that will sweep through the closets of women worldwide?

Reprinted by permission of Kingswell/Disney Publishing Worldwide.

The report builds on a recent UN report documenting the high economic costs worldwide of domestic violence.

They not only disrupted service in China, they apparently crashed the search engine worldwide.

He calls East and West together in common appreciation of one whose influence was not merely local but worldwide.

I refer, of course, to the obnoxious Ilbert Bill of sinister, worldwide fame.

He also wrote many articles of a worldwide scope for Harper's Weekly.

In the afternoon we were able to see some portions of that wonderful harbour, of worldwide reputation.

In 1966, the International Whaling Commission imposed a worldwide ban on the taking of humpback whales.

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