Definition of "global"

global

/ˈɡləʊbəl/

adjective
comparative more global, superlative most global
1. Concerning all parts of the world.
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  Some rights are more global than others; social rights in particular do not seem to globalise easily.
  2003, Catherine Dupré, Importing the law in post-communist transitions, page 169
  It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
  2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19
2. (not comparable) Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal:
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  The first account that is created when you sign up is the global Administrator.
  2013 December 30, Matthew Katze, Don Crawford, Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud‎, page 366
  1. (not comparable, computing) Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.
  2. Which has to be considered in its entirety.
3. Spherical, ball-shaped.
4. (not comparable) Of or relating to a globe or sphere.
noun
plural globals
1. (computing) A globally scoped identifier.
adverb
comparative more global, superlative most global
1. In the global manner; world-wide.
  Quotations
  Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
  2016, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, page 122

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