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outreach

[ verb out-reech; noun adjective out-reech ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to reach beyond; exceed:

    The demand has outreached our supply.

  2. Archaic. to reach out; extend.


verb (used without object)

  1. to reach out.

noun

  1. an act or instance of reaching out.
  2. length or extent of reach.
  3. the act of extending services, benefits, etc., to a wider section of the population, as in community work.

adjective

  1. concerned with extending community services, benefits, etc.:

    an educational outreach program.

outreach

verb

  1. tr to surpass in reach
  2. tr to go beyond
  3. to reach or cause to reach out


noun

  1. the act or process of reaching out
  2. the length or extent of reach
  3. social welfare any systematic effort to provide unsolicited and predefined help to groups or individuals deemed to need it
  4. modifier (of welfare work or workers) propagating take-up of a service by seeking out appropriate people and persuading them to accept what is judged good for them Compare detached

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Word History and Origins

Origin of outreach1

First recorded in 1560–70; out- + reach

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Example Sentences

If you’re doing outreach to bloggers, you can track each link you build in an Excel document and monitor status updates.

Particular outreach will focus on uninsured and unemployed adults — some of the same people are more likely to be hospitalized if they get sick — along with essential workers and people who are homeless.

From Fortune

Therefore, a campaign targeting major life events is bound to have limited outreach.

Greene said while outreach has significantly improved, it was lacking in the pandemic’s early days.

As a result, you may be leaving sites out of your outreach that can drive ranking, or you may be including sites that will provide no value or potentially get you penalized.

This is especially striking, though hardly surprising, in the case of Priebus, Mr. Outreach.

The outreach program spans the entire east coast, where the show mainly travels.

He also seizes the opportunity to do public outreach, educating locals on HIV and AIDS as well as preventative methods.

Among the efforts they recommended: a $10 million outreach effort to minority communities.

And there are still some in the Republican Party who think all of this outreach is a mistake.

Now the thing to mark very keenly is this: that God's chief reliance in His passionate outreach for His world is men.

The pedigree of this usage is derived from so many descents of ages that the cause and author outreach the remembrance.

He would first work in us, that He may work through us in His passionate outreach for a world.

Hers was no poetic outreach like that of the young genius who wants to be off for Bohemia.

To fight is useless, for I have bowmen who can shoot you down and spears that can outreach you.

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