countrywide

• country-wide

country +‎ -wide

• enPR: kŭn'tri-wīdʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌkʌn.tɹiˈwaɪd/
• Rhymes: -aɪd
• Hyphenation: coun‧try‧wide

countrywide (not comparable)

1. Throughout a country; nationwide.
   • 1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 377:

     In order to provide for a large measure of rail participation in countrywide collection and delivery of small consignments—a task they were never particularly well suited to do, and which they did only because the horse and cart were worse—the railways sacrificed their main advantages.

countrywide (not comparable)

1. Throughout a country; nationwide.
   • 1919 November 15, A. M. Graham, “The Memorial Building a Living Tribute”, in Arts & Decoration, volume XII, number 1, page 22:

     …America, with such vital power, with a people ambitious, wealthy, great and of a noble past, has a task before it, into which it will enter with a will, since the need is felt countrywide.

   • 1988, John Maxwell Hamilton, Edgar Snow: A Biography, Indiana University Press,, →ISBN, page 259:

     On such a day the streets of Peking and other cities could be peaceful, as if order had been restored countrywide.

   • 2011, Peter Tomsen, The Wars of Afghanistan, PublicAffairs, →ISBN, pages 216–217:

     The operation lifted Mujahidin pride and morale countrywide.