The still productive suffix -wide can be attached to nouns that denote a discrete unit, whether social, geographic, or even textual, which has identifiable sub-units included in the scope of the modifier thus created. They may range from commonly used words — districtwide, citywide, regionwide, statewide, nationwide, worldwide — to ad hoc coinages or jargon limited to a particular group.
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Community organizations face a major challenge in securing what they need to fund their own operations while pursuing a neighborhood-wide plan. — David J. Wright, It Takes a Neighborhood: Strategies to Prevent Urban Decline, 2001, 63.
A district-wide approach allows individual property owners to pursue more comprehensive measures and also take into account social and economic criteria with respect to the buildings most in need of refurbishment. — Peter Droege,Urban Energy Transition: Renewable Strategies for Cities and Regions, 2018.
Here, district is the translation of the German Bezirk, an official district within a city.
Short-term, negligible, parkwide, adverse effects would occur when park staff relocate equipment during flood events. — Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, 2006.
In these nursing contexts, housewide means ‘hospital-wide’. For words not common to all speakers and thus less likely to have a dictionary entry, hyphenation may vary.
This exploratory quantitative research study focused on a house wide hospital Registered Nurse float pool and its impact on nurse job satisfaction. — Megan E. Duffy, Effects of a House Wide Hospital Registered Nurse Float Pool, 2010.
To facilitate completion of the staging process for over 700 Registered Nurses, the Implementation Workgroup recommended establishment of both house-wide panels and unitbased panels. — Barbara Haag-Heitman, Clinical Practice Development Using Novice to Expert Theory, 1999.
This “buy-in” created a common housewide standard for pain identification and documentation, as well as a system-wide approach to pain management. — Debra Mark, Integrating Evidence into Practice for Impact, 2014.
The suffix can also serve at various levels of an organization, including groupwide, teamwide, chapterwide, sectionwide, company-wide, corporate-wide, branchwide, businesswide, and, of course, bankwide.
Concurrently with the preparation of the department plans, the task force developed plans on bankwide matters— areas which were corporation-oriented rather than department-oriented. — Burroughs Clearing House 51 (1966), 25.
In these two examples, the suffix is applied to a chapter in a law code and a virtual book file composed of individual files in a software program:
Current Section 5324(c), '“Prohibitions Against Regulating Operations and Charges,” is moved to Section 5334, “Administrative Provisions,” as a new Subsection (b). It is appropriate to house this prohibition in the “Administrative Provisions”section and make it expressly applicable chapter-wide, rather than on capital projects only. — Amending Chapter 53 of Title 49, United States Code
Book-Wide Settings. After you put your files together into a book file, book-wide command settings take precedence over the original individual file settings for the selected book files. — Lisa Jahred, FrameMaker 6: Beyond the Basics, 2001, 325.
While [noun] at large can sometimes substitute for [noun]-wide, it lacks the economy and flexibility of the suffixed word. A notice inviting students to a schoolwide dance, for instance, would seem overly formal if it were called “a dance for the school at large.”
