Widespread
Full definition of widespread
Adjective
widespread
- 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.