extensive
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(s) large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
- an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England
- extended farm lands
- surgeons with extended experience
- they suffered extensive damage
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(s) broad in scope or content
- 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
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(a) of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor
- producing wheat under extensive conditions
- agriculture of the extensive type