global

Forms

1.Concerning all parts of the world.
- World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the War on Terror are global conflicts.
- Some rights are more global than others; social rights in particular do not seem to globalise easily.
- Pollution is a global problem.
2.Pertaining to the whole of something; total, universal
- Global variables keep support engineers employed.
- The first account that is created when you sign up is the global Administrator.
3.Spherical, ball-shaped.
- In the center was a small, global mass.
4.Of or relating to a globe or sphere.

1.In the global manner; world-wide.
- 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.

Common· #966

From globe + -al; compare French global.