Companywide

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Relating to every department and group within a business organization
2. Encompassing all employees and functions across the corporation
3. Pertaining to actions or initiatives that include all parts of a business entity

Etymology: "Companywide" is a plain compound: "company" joined to "-wide," a suffix meaning "extending across the whole of." The second element traces back through Old English "wīd," meaning "broad" or "extensive," to a Proto-Germanic root, and that same ancestor gave English "wide" itself. So the word is simply an old adjective of breadth attached to a business term, with nothing hidden in its ancestry. The suffix is the productive part. English has long been happy to bolt "-wide" onto nouns to mean "across all of," as in "nationwide" or "worldwide," and "companywide" follows that pattern exactly. It describes something that reaches every corner of an organisation rather than one department or site.

Synonyms: corporate, enterprise-wide, organization-wide