statewide

/steɪtˈwaɪd/

adj 2adv 2noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

all, all, general, high, pro, regional

The governor announced a statewide initiative to improve all public schools across the state.

VERB + STATEWIDE

apply, attacks, banned, conducted, creating, held, hold, issued

The new safety regulations apply statewide starting next month for all restaurants.

STATEWIDE + NOUN

48-hour, amateur, campfire, contests, effort, evacuation, kosher, office

The statewide evacuation order forced thousands of residents to leave their homes immediately.

PREP.

in, on, than

The new education policy was implemented statewide in all public schools last year.

ADV.

nearly, such

Nearly statewide power outages occurred after the severe winter storm last week.

Definitions

adj

Happening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union).

School monies are derived from two general sources in Georgia—State taxes and local taxes. ¶ The State secures money for its school funds from two sources—a statewide general property tax, and a unit of measure tax on gasoline and kerosene.

The 1963-founded Surfing Victoria meanwhile held regional and statewide contests; today the organization schedules more than 25 statewide pro and amateur events each year.

Happening in or affecting an entire sovereign state; nationwide.

But should economic science further such attempts by accepting those doctrines at their face value, couching all its discourse in terms of statewide economies, and making its basic estimates in terms of national totals, i.e., totals for the relatively artificial boundaries of states?

All their activities in the economic and political sphere were related to the state’s law and were performed within the statewide market for labor and commodities, and their citizen’s rights could be exercised in state elections. All these facts and forces favored the identification of the people with their state but they did not explain why this state had to be national, why the national ties were developed simultaneously with the creation of citizen states.

adv

Throughout a state (political subdivision of a federal union).

Sharks are an ever-present hazard in South Australia…as of 2002 there had been nearly 50 attacks statewide, including a 48-hour period in September 2000 that saw two surfer fatalities.

After an unsuccessful attempt to have The Grapes of Wrath banned statewide (the effort backfired), the AF commissioned and distributed a barrage of counternarratives.

Throughout a sovereign state; nationwide.

Alternatives to the core Spanish identity were pressing only in the Catalon and Basque regions and not statewide.

In the end, the Communist Party scored a stunning victory in the 26 May 1946 election, winning more than 40 percent in the Czech provinces and taking a substantial plurality of the vote statewide.

noun

An agency or association operating through a state (political subdivision).

Thesaurus

Synonyms

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Wiktionary

The 1963-founded Surfing Victoria meanwhile held regional and statewide contests; today the organization schedules more than 25 statewide pro and amateur events each year.

Wiktionary

Fewer Saxon and Bavarian cities attempted to implement mandatory stunning laws, but their state parliaments debated the possibility of creating statewide bans on kosher butchering.

Wiktionary

Sharks are an ever-present hazard in South Australia…as of 2002 there had been nearly 50 attacks statewide, including a 48-hour period in September 2000 that saw two surfer fatalities.

Wiktionary

After an unsuccessful attempt to have The Grapes of Wrath banned statewide (the effort backfired), the AF commissioned and distributed a barrage of counternarratives.

Wiktionary

The state of Jalisco hired a single pharmacy company to provide all such medicines statewide.

Wiktionary

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, statewide is marked as US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

Your note

not saved

0 chars