• Widespread

    Origin

    From wide + spread.

    Full definition of widespread

    Adjective

    widespread

    1. Affecting a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent.
      • 2013-06-28, Joris Luyendijk, Our banks are out of control, Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic .  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.

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