Definition of "statewide"
statewide
adjective
not comparable
Happening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union).
Quotations
School monies are derived from two general sources in Georgia—State taxes and local taxes. ¶ The State secures money for its school funds from two sources—a statewide general property tax, and a unit of measure tax on gasoline and kerosene.
1933, "Negro Education in Georgia", The Crisis, volume 40 (W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, ed.), page 180
Happening in or affecting an entire sovereign state; nationwide.
Quotations
But should economic science further such attempts by accepting those doctrines at their face value, couching all its discourse in terms of statewide economies, and making its basic estimates in terms of national totals, i.e., totals for the relatively artificial boundaries of states?
1941, Simon Kuznets, National Income and Its Composition, 1919–1938, volume 1, page 51
All their activities in the economic and political sphere were related to the state’s law and were performed within the statewide market for labor and commodities, and their citizen’s rights could be exercised in state elections. All these facts and forces favored the identification of the people with their state but they did not explain why this state had to be national, why the national ties were developed simultaneously with the creation of citizen states.
1993, Zdzisław Mach, Symbols, Conflict, and Identity, State University of New York Press, pages 96–97
Along with the rise of modern states came the establishment of statewide official currencies with the aim of protecting the corresponding markets and increasing trade within state territories.
2007, Josep M. Colomer, Great Empires, Small Nations, Routledge,, page 46
adverb
not comparable
Throughout a state (political subdivision of a federal union).
Quotations
Throughout a sovereign state; nationwide.
Quotations
Alternatives to the core Spanish identity were pressing only in the Catalon and Basque regions and not statewide.
2004, Carol Skalnik Leff, “Democratization and Disintegration in the Multinational States: The Breakup of the Communist Federations”, in Timothy J. Sinclair, editor, Global Governance, volume II, Routledge, page 166
The Solomons do not cohere ethnographically (there are 70 languages spoken statewide) and nor are they likely to, at least, not in the short term. This does not bode well for the capacity of any Solomons government to win national legitimacy.
2012, Ralph Pettman, Psychopathology and World Politics, World Scientific,, page 179
noun
plural statewides
(US) An agency or association operating through a state (political subdivision).