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*1. The extent or length to which something reaches out. Also fig.: the area or extent of influence; scope.
*2. a. The [[action]] of reaching out. Freq. fig.
:b. spec. The activity of an organization in making contact and fostering relations with people unconnected with it, esp. for the [[purpose]] of support or [[education]] and for increasing awareness of the organization's aims or message; the [[fact]] or extent of this activity.
==Chronologic Samples==
*1899 19th Cent. Sept. 456 We met many who discovered at once the fundamental principles of sympathy outreach and information underlying and mellowing each department of the Congress.
*1918 J. CLARKE Japan at First Hand i. 8 In its natural outreach to control its own trade at home, and under its great necessity to make new trade abroad..it pushes on serenely.
*1976 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 133 67/2 Part of the problem is the area of outreach and home visits in other words, leaving our offices to treat the elderly.
*2001 N.Y. Times 6 May XIV. 4/4 We will also be doing outreach and education about the reef restoration.
[[Category: General Reference]]
*1. The extent or length to which something reaches out. Also fig.: the area or extent of influence; scope.
*2. a. The [[action]] of reaching out. Freq. fig.
:b. spec. The activity of an organization in making contact and fostering relations with people unconnected with it, esp. for the [[purpose]] of support or [[education]] and for increasing awareness of the organization's aims or message; the [[fact]] or extent of this activity.
==Chronologic Samples==
*1899 19th Cent. Sept. 456 We met many who discovered at once the fundamental principles of sympathy outreach and information underlying and mellowing each department of the Congress.
*1918 J. CLARKE Japan at First Hand i. 8 In its natural outreach to control its own trade at home, and under its great necessity to make new trade abroad..it pushes on serenely.
*1976 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 133 67/2 Part of the problem is the area of outreach and home visits in other words, leaving our offices to treat the elderly.
*2001 N.Y. Times 6 May XIV. 4/4 We will also be doing outreach and education about the reef restoration.
[[Category: General Reference]]