wardwide

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adjective

Spanning an entire ward

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivewardwide (not comparable)
  1. not comparableSpanning an entire ward

    I had a kind of breakdown and was in a city mental hospital, where I was in a ward-wide therapy group.

    1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 192
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    Females are organized into coteries, coteries into wards, and wards into a colony. Female offspring from coteries within a ward form a wardwide pool of […]

    1990, Felix Breden, Glenn Hausfater, “Selection Within and Between Social Groups for Infanticide”, in American Naturalist, volume 136, number 5
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