Outreach
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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.
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.