adjective
- Large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity.
- usage: "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "they suffered extensive damage"
- synonyms: extended
- Broad in scope or content.
- usage: "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality- T. G. Winner; "granted him wide powers"
- synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide
- Of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor.
- usage: "producing wheat under extensive conditions"; "agriculture of the extensive type"
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