extensive

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
extensive/ɪkˈstensɪv/
adjective
  • 1 covering a large area.

    ■ large in amount or scale.

  • 2 (of agriculture) obtaining a relatively small crop from a large area with a minimum of capital and labour. Often contrasted with intensive.
– derivatives
extensively adverb,
extensiveness noun.
– origin ME: from Fr. extensif, -ive or late L. extensivus, from extens-, extendere (see extend).
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