Meaning & use

Companywide

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Affecting, applying to, or involving an entire company rather than a single department or team.

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The CEO announced a companywide hiring freeze.

The new policy was communicated companywide by email.

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Compound adjectives like 'companywide' became common in 20th-century American business English as corporations grew large enough to need such terms.

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