statewide

[steyt-wahyd]

adjective

1. extending throughout all parts of a state in the U.S..

   a statewide search.

adverb

1. throughout a state.

   It was applauded statewide.

Word History and Origins

Origin of statewide¹

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15; state + -wide

Example Sentences

The matter was complicated by Proposition 218, a 1996 statewide ballot measure designed to make it harder for local governments to raise taxes and fees.

From Los Angeles Times

It is unclear how streaming services will be regulated by the statewide law.

From Los Angeles Times

After the state faced its most destructive wildfire season on record in 2017, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services published statewide Alert and Warning Guidelines and standardized alert language.

From Los Angeles Times

Internal Republican polling shows that, in a hypothetical match-up between Greene and the state’s incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, she would lose statewide by 18 points.

From Salon

We also see a collective resistance: a statewide prisoner strike in 2022 that tries to call attention to a free-labor boondoggle that can only be called modern slavery.

From Los Angeles Times