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outreach

Other forms: outreaches

When medical care or other services are delivered to people in their community, it's through outreach. Your local animal shelter might conduct outreach programs to provide affordable vaccines to pet owners.

When a person or organization reaches out to others, that's outreach. Churches, political groups, public health departments, and educators all offer outreach, extending some kind of helping hand or useful information to the wider community. You can also use this word to mean "exceed," like when demand for a new gaming console outreaches the available supply, or when a tennis player with longer arms can outreach an opponent by being able to hit a ball from farther away.

Definitions of outreach
  1. noun
    the act of reaching out
    “the outreach toward truth of the human spirit”
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    type of:
    reach, reaching, stretch
    the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
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