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outreach

[v. out-reech; n., adj. out-reech]

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verb (used with object)

to reach beyond; exceed: The demand has outreached our supply.

Archaic. to reach out; extend.

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verb (used without object)

to reach out.

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noun

an act or instance of reaching out.

length or extent of reach.

the act of extending services, benefits, etc., to a wider section of the population, as in community work.

adjective

concerned with extending community services, benefits, etc.: an educational outreach program.

Origin:
1560–70; out- + reach

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outreach

—vb
1.	(tr) to surpass in reach
2.	(tr) to go beyond
3.	to reach or cause to reach out

—n
4.	the act or process of reaching out
5.	the length or extent of reach
6.	social welfare any systematic effort to provide unsolicited and predefined help to groups or individuals deemed to need it
7.	(modifier) Compare detached (of welfare work or workers) propagating take-up of a service by seeking out appropriate people and persuading them to accept what is judged good for them

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outreach

"an organization's involvement in the community," 1870, from out + reach (q.v.). The verb (1568) tends to be used in literal senses.

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"The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them."

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