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abroad

[uh-brawd]

adverb

in or to a foreign country or countries: famous at home and abroad.

in or to another continent: Shall we go to Mexico or abroad this summer?

out of doors; from one place to another; about: No one was abroad in the noonday heat. The owl ventures abroad at night.

spread around; in circulation: Rumors of disaster are abroad.

broadly; widely; far and wide.

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wide of the mark; in error.

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noun

a foreign land or lands: imports from abroad.

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Origin:
1225–75; Middle English abrod. See a-¹, broad

Can be confused: aboard, abort, abroad.

Synonyms
1. overseas. 3. out, outside. 4. everywhere, rife.

Antonyms
1. at home.

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Example Sentences

In recent years the lines between studying abroad and working abroad have blurred.

One reason is that top companies make four-fifths of their profits abroad.

Combine studying and travel with a semester or year abroad.

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In recent years the lines between studying abroad and working abroad have blurred.

One reason is that top companies make four-fifths of their profits abroad.

Combine studying and travel with a semester or year abroad.

They are corrupting law enforcement here and abroad and paying off politicians so that they can stay in business.

Here are a few items to think about if you're traveling abroad in the near future.

The proposed policy would not ban the use of all private-sector recruiters abroad.

Since that reemergence, she has regularly toured abroad.

Engineers were sent to seek solutions abroad and came back with the idea of processing the landfill gas into clean energy.

Every effort to sustain communication with abroad contacts should be maintained to support these young visionaries.

Contact information for agencies to consult for medical emergencies abroad.

We import virtually all our raw materials for those technologies from abroad.

Income from citizens now working abroad augments the economy.

And this revelation, in turn, has recast the spotlight on missing legislation at home and abroad.

We need international cooperation and research into forensic technology to deal with attacks from abroad.

So when you need a stem cell therapy in the future, plan to make a trip abroad.

It is true that many more have gone abroad this season than for some years, and quite a number.

Despite the rhetoric about needing workers with an international outlook, employers tend to rank study abroad low.

Others spend several years abroad but then return home with new skills, new contacts and a pot of savings to invest.

One doesn't have to go abroad to participate in one of the biggest holidays in the world.

News from abroad unquestionably played a big part in the strong undertone to the foreign exchange market of yesterday.

Nomura seems to be struggling but the industry's re-expansion abroad will continue.

American doctors remain skeptical because studies on honey come from abroad and some are imperfectly.

The program seems to be a for-profit study-and-travel abroad program.

The group may publish online guides to behaving well abroad.

Taylor, the schemer, used the chaos to cultivate contacts abroad.

Your career services office or sometimes the study abroad office at your campus may have other helpful resources.

No small element in the white man's magic is the hopeful message sent abroad by his missionaries:.

It would not have blocked colleges from using other types of private-sector recruitment abroad.

Fairies, demons, and other creatures were also said to be abroad.

Meanwhile, plunging demand for pelts at home and abroad has reduced the number of trappers in the field.

Many of these job-seekers married and started families while abroad.

Of course, what happens in industrial facilities abroad is up to the host country to regulate.

Al-Timimi was guilty of nothing other than exhorting some young men to go abroad and defend their faith.

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World English Dictionary

abroad (əˈbrɔːd)

—*adv*
1.	to or in a foreign country or countries

—*adj*
2.	(of news, rumours, etc) in general circulation; current
3.	out in the open
4.	over a wide area
5.	archaic in error

[C13: from a-² + broad]

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Word Origin & History

abroad

mid-13c., "widely apart," from O.E. on brede, which meant something like "at wide" (see broad). The sense "out of doors, away from home" (late 14c.) led to the main modern sense of "out of one's country, overseas" (mid-15c.).

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