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wide-rangingˌwide-ˈranging ●○○ adjective written - 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.
- 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.
including many different people, things, activities etc► varied consisting of or including many different people, things, activities etc: · He had a varied and outstanding career.· Grain products, vegetables, and fruit are important parts of a varied diet.· Sandra's circle of friends was varied, and often a little strange. ► variety the differences within a group, set of actions etc that make it interesting: · She's always complaining that her job doesn't have enough variety.· The music on her latest CD shows a great deal of variety.variety of: · The doctor encouraged him to increase the variety of food that he eats. ► diverse a diverse group of people or things contains a lot of very different types of people or things: · The project studied a diverse group of 20,000 teenagers from nine high schools.· We believe the committee should reflect the diverse make-up of our community.· The region's economy is more diverse now than it was 10 years ago. ► wide-ranging including many different subjects, ideas, or things: · Climate change is likely to have a wide-ranging impact on human health.· Our discussions were wide-ranging and substantive.· A wide-ranging survey found growing dissatisfaction among workers. ► mixed including two or more different things of the same type, or people of different types, mixed together: · The show draws a mixed audience of children and adults.· After beating the cake mixture, add a handful of mixed nuts.· This is a very mixed neighborhood, both racially and socially. ► multicultural/multiracial including or concerning people of different races or religions, especially those who live together in the same society, go to the same schools etc: · Most of today's teachers are committed to multicultural education.· He grew up in a multiracial area in London's East End.· Government policies should reflect the multiracial nature of our society. 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. including a wide variety of subjects, things, or people: a wide-ranging discussion wide-ranging proposals to improve the rail network |