ACROSS THE COUNTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does across the country mean? 

• ACROSS THE COUNTRY (adverb)
  The adverb ACROSS THE COUNTRY has 1 sense:

1. extending throughout an entire nation

  Familiarity information: ACROSS THE COUNTRY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACROSS THE COUNTRY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extending throughout an entire nation

Synonyms:

across the country; across the nation; nationally; nationwide

Context example:

it was broadcast nationwide

 Context examples 

Research conceived and conducted by scientists in laboratories and clinics across the country and at NCI.

(Investigator-Initiated Research, NCI Thesaurus)

These maps display cancer mortality data by county and state economic regions across the country.

(Mortality Map, NCI Thesaurus)

For sixpence a day, at the most; while now you may walk across the country and stretch out either hand to gather in whatever you have a mind for.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The NCI's Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1950-94, shows the geographic patterns of cancer death rates in over 3,000 counties across the country over more than four decades.

(Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, NCI Thesaurus)

Nearly 80 percent of AHRQ's budget is awarded as grants and contracts to researchers at universities and other research institutions across the country.

(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, NCI Thesaurus)

The research was conducted in part at NSF’s Moorea Coral Reef Long-Term Ecological Research site in French Polynesia, one of 28 such NSF long-term research sites across the country and around the globe.

(Coral reefs shifting away from equatorial waters, National Science Foundation)

Scientific activities include studies from a number of study and research institutions across the country, which avail themselves of the ship as well as equipment installed in Antarctica.

(Brazil ship off to Antarctica for research support, Agência Brasil)

While the Perseids likely will draw large crowds of spectators around the world, those based in the United States will have the chance to see an even bigger astronomical event next week when the U.S. will witness the first total solar eclipse across the country in almost 100 years.

(Perseid Meteor Shower Provides Opening Act for Solar Eclipse, VOA News)

In India, where an estimated 50,000 people die of snakebite each year, the Big 4 Mapping Project has just completed its first year of real-time mapping to help build a picture of snake activity across the country.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)