At Large

Definition: At Large

At Large

Adjective

1. Considered altogether; "the country at large"; "I enjoyed the play as a whole though I thought the acting could have been better".

2. Having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood".

Adverb

1. In a general fashion; "he talked at large about his plans".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: At Large

Diffuseness

Adverb: diffusely; Adjective: at large, in extenso; about it and about it.

Freedom

Verb: be free; Adjective: have scope; Noun: have the run of, have one's own way, have a will of one's own, have one's fling; do what one likes, do what one wishes, do what one pleases, do what one chooses; go at large, feel at home, paddle one's own canoe; stand on one's legs, stand on one's rights; shift for oneself.

Adjective: free, free as air; out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free; left alone, left to oneself.

Mankind

People, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal, commonwealth; republic, body politic; million. (commonalty); population. (inhabitant).

Crosswords: At Large

He's not your stalker, your stalker is still at large! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

Dave Allen at Large (1971)

Doctor at Large (1971)

Barlow at Large (1971)

Lance at Large (1964)

Ambassador at Large (1963)

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Books

• Garfield at Large (Davis, Jim. Garfield Classics.) (reference)

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At large osmotic pressure long DNA fragments create a hexagonally ordered macromolecular array. Except for the symmetry of the subphase this experiment is equivalent to the multilamellar lipid subphase. Credit: NICHD.

African American man seated at large desk in office. Credit: Library of Congress.

Man seated near table looking at large hand. Credit: Library of Congress.

One killer still at large. Credit: Library of Congress.

$100,000 reward! The murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, is still at large. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ocean waves. From side of boat, looking at large wave. Credit: Library of Congress.

Frank Farnum coaching Pauline Starke. And now the Charleston is moving into the movies! Pauline Starke will introduce it to the movie public at large when in the role of a chorus girl in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "A Little bit of Broadway", she performs it on. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bathers at large ocean water slide. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stamp out this New York comic strip written by liberal politicians : vote for Frank J. Mossa, Councilman at Large. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But be this as it will, which I lay no stress on; this I dare boldly affirm, that the same rule of propriety, (viz.) that every man should have as much as he could make use of, would hold still in the world, without straitening any body; since there is land enough in the world to suffice double the inhabitants, had not the invention of money, and the tacit agreement of men to put a value on it, introduced (by consent) larger possessions, and a right to them; which, how it has done, I shall by and by shew more at large. (Second Treatise of Government)

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. (reference)

Clause 2: Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. (reference)

In the conditions of the proletariat, those of old society at large are already virtually swamped. (reference)

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Health

These can take place in the community at large. (references)

In the population at large, the chance of developing MS is less than a tenth of one percent. (references)

For these individuals and the community at large, drug addiction treatment is disease prevention. (references)

Business

Imports are aimed at large companies within the food industry, which renew their equipment on an occasional basis. (references)

Investment in the building sector is highly concentrated in residential construction for the population at large (see chart below). (references)

Enforcement is reasonably good at large and medium-sized companies, especially in export industries and those under federal jurisdiction. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bangladesh

Eight of the accused remain at large. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

The Philippine Senate is elected at large. (references)

Israel

Under the present electoral system, all members of the Knesset are elected at large. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

The killers remained at large at year's end. (references)

South Africa

At year's end, one suspect remained at large. (references)

Indonesia

The other two militia members still were at large. (references)

Indigenous People

Brazil

For example, among Yanomami, the incidence of registered cases of malaria fell from 8.3 percent in January 2000 to 0.3 percent in September 2001. Infant mortality among Yanomami also appears to have fallen significantly, although it remains higher than in the population at large. (references)

Minorities

Greece

Roma continued to face discrimination from some local authorities and society at large. (references)

Uruguay

According to a study published in 1999 by the NGO Mundo Afro, the illiteracy rate among black women is twice the national average, and the percentage of black women who have pursued higher education is one-third the rate in the population at large. (references)

Political Economy

Uk

Wide differences of opinion on joining the Euro prevail within the parties and the public at large. (references)

Jordan

While the U.S. has confidence in the government of Jordan's ability to address these threats, it cannot be ruled out that terrorist elements may remain at large. (references)

Tanzania

As the economy is liberalized, questions regarding land ownership policies and other impacts of investment on the population at large have become the subject of public debate. (references)

Political Rights

Swaziland

As provided under law, the House of Assembly nominated 10 members from the public at large to serve in the upper house or Senate. (references)

Micronesia

The Congress is elected by popular vote from each state; the Congress then chooses the President and Vice President by majority vote from among its four at large senators. (references)

Travel

Japan

Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Flex work hours have become popular at large companies. (references)

Women

Indonesia

The Government and NGO's are targeting awareness campaigns at Muslim religious leaders and those directly involved in performing female circumcisions (such as traditional birth attendants), and towards society at large, to bring about an end to these practices. (references)

Worker Rights

Belize

The law empowers members to draft the bylaws and the constitutions of their unions, and they are free to elect officers from among the membership at large. (references)

Dominican Republic

Workplace regulations and their enforcement in the FTZ's do not differ from those in the country at large, although working conditions are sometimes better, and the pay is sometimes higher. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "at large": be at large ♦ be still at large ♦ Common at large ♦ Electors at large ♦ in gross or at large ♦ representative at large ♦ set at large. Additional references.

Albanian

tërësisht (all, altogether, completely, entirely, fully, heartily, holus-bolus, outright, sheer, thoroughly, through and through, totally, utterly, wholly), plotësisht (absolutely, all, clear, cold, completely, dead, diametrically, entirely, fully, heartily, hollow, large, neck and crop, out and out, outright, perfectly, plain, plenty, Plumb, properly, quite, sheer, sound, stark, thoroughly, through and through, throughly, to the full extent, to the ground, totally, up, up to the hilt, utterly, well, wholly, wide, widely), në liri. (various references)

Arabic 

‏حر (disengaged, free, freeman, heat, independent, liberated, loose, open, voluntary), ‏طليق (floating, free, freed, freed man, loose, off hand). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свободен (available, disengaged, disposable, easeful, easy, exempt, facile, familiar, fetterless, floating, fluent, footloose, free, glib, go-as-you-please, immune, independent, intestate, leisure, loose, neglige, off, open, otiose, quit, spare, tripping, unbending, unbound, unbuttoned, uncommitted, unconstrained, unforced, unreserved, unrestricted, unstudied, untenanted, untrammelled, vacant, void, wide), щедро (amply, freely, largely, prodigally, profusely), с всички подробности (circumstantially), с общи фрази, като цяло (all in all, bodily, on the whole, totally), в открито море (outside), общо (altogether, commonly, generally, grossly, overall), безразборно (higgledy-piggledy, hit or miss, pell mell, sweepingly), без определено занятие, без определена цел (idly), без определена задача. (various references)

Czech

volnì (loosely), na svobodì. (various references)

Danish

de maximale doser,som er forenelige med tilstraekkelig sikkerhed,er de doser af ioniserende straaling,som i lyset af vor nuvaerende viden ikke kan antages at medfoere naevnevaerdig legemlig skade til nogen enkeltperson i hans levetid eller til befolkninge (are not expected to cause appreciable bodily injury to a person at any time during his lifetime or to the population at large, in the light of present knowledge, maximum doses compatible with adequate safety:the doses of ionizing radiation that). (various references)

Dutch

met voldoende veiligheid maximaal toelaatbare doses zijn de doses ioniserende straling waarvan bij de huidige stand van onze kennis kan worden verwacht,dat zij geen ernstige stoornissen teweeg zullen brengen bij een persoon gedurende zijn leven,of bij de (are not expected to cause appreciable bodily injury to a person at any time during his lifetime or to the population at large, in the light of present knowledge, maximum doses compatible with adequate safety:the doses of ionizing radiation that). (various references)

Finnish

vapaalla jalalla, valtoinaan (hanging down, on the loose, running loose, unhindered). (various references)

French

libre. (various references)

German

ausführlich (circumstantial, comprehensive, detailed, elaborate, elaborately, explicitely, extensively, full, in detail, in full, lengthily, lengthy, particular), lang und breit, im großen und ganzen (overall), im allgemeinen (commonly, generally, in general). (various references)

Greek 

ασύλληπτοσ (inconceivable, uncaught). (various references)

Hebrew 

חופשי (ad. lib., facile, free, loose, unstuck). (various references)

Hungarian

szabadlábon. (various references)

Italian

in libert� . (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

見逃す (to leave at large, to miss, to overlook), 見逃がす (to leave at large, to miss, to overlook), 一般大衆 (general public, ordinary people, public at large). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いっぱ�"たいしゅう (general public, ordinary people, public at large), みのがす (to leave at large, to miss, to overlook). (various references)

Pig Latin

atay argelay

Portuguese

em liberdade, em geral (by and large, en bloc, in general). (various references)

Romanian

pe larg, liber (at a loose end, at leisure, autonomous, available, bast, bondless, clear, disengaged, easily, empty, fetterless, free, go-as-you-please, gracious, gratis, informal, leisured, loose, loosely, naked, odd, off, off duty, open, smooth, spontaneous, unchecked, uncombined, unconstrained, unengaged, unhampered, unhindered, unoccupied, unreserved, vacant, void). (various references)

Russian 

на свободе (at liberty), пространно (amply, extensively, large). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

opširno opisivati (set at large), opširno (amply, large: at large, lengthy), na veliko (large: at large), detaljno (detail: in detail, large: at large, minutely). (various references)

Spanish

sin limitación, en libertad (loose). (various references)

Swedish

utförligt (at length, in detail), på fri fot, i stort, i detalj, i allmänhet (as a general rule, generally, in general, popularly), fri (clear, fair, fancy-free, fetterless, footloose, free, independent, loose, open, unattached, unbound, unchecked, unrestrained, vacant). (various references)

Turkish

ayrıntılı olarak (at length, in detail, lengthily, particularly), tamamen (absolutely, all, altogether, bang, bang on, chock, clean, clear, completely, dead, definitely, downright, entirely, exactly, fair, fully, heart and soul, hollow, holo-, hopelessly, in the highest degree, in toto, neck and crop, off, out and out, outright, perfectly, plenty, precious, properly, quite, richly, roundly, sheer, simply, staring, stark, thoroughly, thro, through, through and through, thru, thru and thru, up to the hilt, utterly, well, whole, wholly, wide), serbest (at liberty, cavalier, disengaged, easy, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, freehearted, freewheeling, go-as-you-please, in the clear, independent, latitudinarian, leisure, liberal, loose, open, permissive, quit, unattached, unbound, unchecked, unconfined, unconstrained, unencumbered, unengaged, unfettered, unhampered, unrestrained, unrestricted, unshackled, untrammelled), genellikle (as a general rule, as a rule, by and large, exoterically, for the most part, generally, in general, largely, normally, on the whole, ordinarily, usually), genel olarak (by and large, generally, in general, in the abstract), etraflıca (fully, in extenso, with all details), bütünüyle (all, at full length, bang, clear, completely, en bloc, entirely, flat, fully, hollow, in large, quite, totally, up to the hilt), özgür (at liberty, exempt, free, independent, latitudinarian, unfettered). (various references)

Ukrainian

у цілому, на волі, без певних занять, докладно (amply, circumstantiality, closely, microscopically, minutely, narrowly, particularly). (various references)

soluta, soluti, solutis, solutum, solutus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aglare, alegar, laager, tergal.

-2 letters: agate, aglet, alate, alert, algae, altar, alter, areal, argal, argle, artal, artel, galea, glare, graal, grate, great, lager, large, later, ratal, ratel, reata, regal, retag, talar, taler, targe, terga.

-3 letters: agar, ager, alae, alar, alga, area, earl, egal, gala, gale, gate, gear, gelt, geta, grat, late, lear, raga.

-5 letters: aa.

+1 letter: agrestal, argental, glabrate.

+2 letters: antiglare, cartilage, cataloger, gastrulae, grantable, granulate, gratulate, tailgater.

+3 letters: algebraist, cartilages, catalogers, cataloguer, deflagrate, extralegal, fragmental, gastrulate, granulated, granulates, gratulated, gratulates, lacerating, lateraling, laureating, martingale, tailgaters, targetable, tetragonal.

+4 letters: agglomerate, aggregately, algebraists, allografted, altercating, alternating, cataloguers, categorical, deflagrated, deflagrates, egalitarian, elaborating, farthingale, flabbergast, gallantries, gastrulated, gastrulates, lateralling, magisterial, maltreating, martingales, plantigrade, rectangular, retaliating, revaluating, strangulate, strategical, talebearing, triangulate.