(adv.) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad.
(adv.) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad.
(adv.) Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad.
(adv.) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Between 70 and 80% of human Salmonella infections are contracted abroad, mainly outside the Nordic countries.
(2) Using the Italian I distantly remember from my year abroad in Florence as a student (mi chiama Hadley!
(3) NK cells mediate their cytotoxicity against tumor cells through abroad array of cytotoxic and cytostatic proteins.
(4) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
(5) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
(6) British citizens travelling or studying abroad for more than three months are being refused benefits on their return under new rules designed to crackdown on benefit tourism from eastern Europe .
(7) Ammoniation of corn, peanuts, cottonseed, and meals to alter the toxic and carcinogenic effects of aflatoxin contamination has been the subject of intense research effort by scientists in various government agencies and universities, both in the United States and abroad.
(8) Salinger stayed abroad for five months, mainly in Vienna.
(9) Last year more than 4,000 doctors took the first steps towards working abroad.
(10) I’ve seen Ukip both at home and abroad, and I’m sorry to say they’re pretty amateur.
(11) The Bank cited slower economic growth at home and abroad, especially in the UK's main export markets, as well as problems in the eurozone, and strains on the banking system.
(12) She finds indoor activities to discourage the kids from playing outside on the foulest days, and plans holidays abroad as often as possible – but still frets about what their years in Delhi may do to her children’s health.
(13) We might have a patient we can’t do anything for and we have to wait for them to die, knowing if they were abroad they could be saved.
(14) And there are many others who cannot leave teaching, and so will take their talent abroad, where they are valued much more highly.
(15) By encouraging (in effect, subsidising) ever more Britons to holiday abroad, extra runway capacity would probably harm rather than help the balance of payments.
(16) Several large-scale, observational epidemiologic studies in the United States and abroad have shown a strong independent inverse relation between HDL and CAD.
(17) BNP spokesman Simon Darby, said today that at first glance the list includes some people who are no longer members and some who have moved abroad.
(18) She warned that housing benefit caps would make moving to the private rented sector increasingly difficult for those on low incomes, and complained that homes were now allowed to stand empty in London and elsewhere because they had been sold abroad as financial assets.
(19) Four of the index cases had recently travelled abroad.
(20) Some 59% of voters said the UK's recent entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan had made them more reluctant to support military interventions by UK forces abroad.
Foreign
Definition:
(a.) Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.
(a.) Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits.
(a.) Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.
(a.) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(2) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
(3) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
(4) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
(5) Foreign antigens conjugated to alpha-2-Macroglobulin (alpha-2-M) were effectively taken up by murine macrophages via alpha-2-M receptors.
(6) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(7) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
(8) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
(9) This is not for the most part revolutionary.” Trump has made some of his least ideological picks in the area of national security and foreign policy.
(10) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
(11) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(12) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
(13) The 500-bp element arose by duplication of one half of a 180-bp ancestor and insertion of a foreign segment between the two duplicated parts followed by amplification.
(14) In Paris, a foreign ministry spokesman, Romain Nadal, said the French authorities were “fully mobilised to help Serge Atlaoui, whose situation remains very worrying”.
(15) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
(16) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
(17) Van Rompuy and Ashton got their jobs at the same time as a result of the Lisbon treaty, which created the posts of president of the European council and high representative for foreign and security policy.
(18) Glutathione (GSH) plays a primary role in protecting cells from oxidative stress and in detoxifying foreign compounds.
(19) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
(20) "We know that a country has tipped when local-to-local connections outnumber local to foreign," he added.