Local vs Statewide - What's the difference?
local | statewide |
From or in a nearby location.
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(computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
(mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
(medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
Descended from an indigenous population.
A person who lives nearby.
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
(rail transport) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
(British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
(programming) A locally scoped identifier.
(US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
Happening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union).
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* 2003 , Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing , Harcourt, ISBN 0-15-100579-6, page 670:
* 2007 , Robin Judd, Contested Rituals , Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-4545-3, page 145:
Happening in or affecting an entire sovereign state; nationwide.
* 1941 , , National Income and Its Composition, 1919–1938 , volume 1, page 51:
* 1993 , Zdzis?aw Mach, Symbols, Conflict, and Identity , State University of New York Press, ISBN 0-7914-1465-5, pages 96–97:
* 2007 , , Great Empires, Small Nations , Routledge, ISBN 0-415-43774-1, page 46:
Throughout a state (political subdivision of a federal union).
* 2003 , Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing , Harcourt, ISBN 0-15-100579-6, page 554:
* 2005 , Douglas Cazaux Sackman, Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden , University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-23886-9, page 280:
* 2011 , Marc J. Roberts & Michael R. Reich, Pharmaceutical Reform , The World Bank, ISBN 978-0-8213-8760-3, page 152:
Throughout a sovereign state; nationwide.
* 2004 , Carol Skalnik Leff, "Democratization and Disintegration in the Multinational States: The Breakup of the Communist Federations", in (ed.), Global Governance , volume II, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-27663-2, page 166:
* 2005 , Benjamin Frommer, National Cleansing , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-81067-1, page 216:
* 2012 , Ralph Pettman, Psychopathology and World Politics , World Scientific, ISBN 981-4338-69-9, page 179:
As adjectives the difference between local and statewide
is that local is from or in a nearby location while statewide is happening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union).As a noun local
is a person who lives nearby.As an adverb statewide is
throughout a state (political subdivision of a federal union).local
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
An internet of airborne things
Synonyms
* (medicine) topicalAntonyms
* globalNoun
(en noun)- It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
- I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
- The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local .
- I got barred from my local , so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
- Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.
Synonyms
* (rail transport) stopperAntonyms
* (rail transport) fast, expressDerived terms
* localism * locallyExternal links
* * * ----statewide
English
Alternative forms
* state-wideAdjective
(-)- School monies are derived from two general sources in Georgia—State taxes and local taxes. ¶ The State secures money for its school funds from two sources—a statewide general property tax, and a unit of measure tax on gasoline and kerosene.
- The 1963-founded Surfing Victoria meanwhile held regional and statewide' contests; today the organization schedules more than 25 ' statewide pro and amateur events each year.
- Fewer Saxon and Bavarian cities attempted to implement mandatory stunning laws, but their state parliaments debated the possibility of creating statewide bans on kosher butchering.
- But should economic science further such attempts by accepting those doctrines at their face value, couching all its discourse in terms of statewide economies, and making its basic estimates in terms of national totals, i.e., totals for the relatively artificial boundaries of states?
- All their activities in the economic and political sphere were related to the state’s law and were performed within the statewide market for labor and commodities, and their citizen’s rights could be exercised in state elections. All these facts and forces favored the identification of the people with their state but they did not explain why this state had to be national, why the national ties were developed simultaneously with the creation of citizen states.
- Along with the rise of modern states came the establishment of statewide official currencies with the aim of protecting the corresponding markets and increasing trade within state territories.
Synonyms
* (Extending throughout a subdivision of a federal union) cantonwide, provincewide * (Extending throughout a sovereign state) countrywide, national, nationwideAdverb
(-)- Sharks are an ever-present hazard in South Australia…as of 2002 there had been nearly 50 attacks statewide , including a 48-hour period in September 2000 that saw two surfer fatalities.
- After an unsuccessful attempt to have The Grapes of Wrath banned statewide (the effort backfired), the AF commissioned and distributed a barrage of counternarratives.
- The state of Jalisco hired a single pharmacy company to provide all such medicines statewide .
- Alternatives to the core Spanish identity were pressing only in the Catalon and Basque regions and not statewide .
- In the end, the Communist Party scored a stunning victory in the 26 May 1946 election, winning more than 40 percent in the Czech provinces and taking a substantial plurality of the vote statewide .
- The Solomons do not cohere ethnographically (there are 70 languages spoken statewide ) and nor are they likely to, at least, not in the short term. This does not bode well for the capacity of any Solomons government to win national legitimacy.