Meanings
adjectivesocietywide (not comparable)
- not comparableThroughout society.
That trial, which began the same week as the elections that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, remains a symbol, to a certain sort of Englishman, of the societywide breakdown of the 1970s, which was a decade of currency devaluations, crippling strikes, uncollected garbage and shortened workweeks.
2009 July 12, Christopher Caldwell, “Can David Cameron Redefine Britain’s Tory Party?”, in New York Times
adverbsocietywide (not comparable)
- not comparableThroughout society.
Origin
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APA
societywide. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/societywide
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“societywide.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/societywide. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “societywide,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/societywide.
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