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  • 51reach — [OE] Reach goes back ultimately to a prehistoric West Germanic *raikjan, a word of uncertain origin which also produced German reichen and Dutch reiken. It originally meant ‘stretch out the hand’, and ‘attain’ and ‘arrive at’ are secondary… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 52reach — I. , v. a. == tell. O. and N. 1447; part. ‘raht.’ Wright’s L. P. p. 42. AS. recan II. , v. a. == hold out to a person, as we say, ‘to reach one a thing.’ Pol. S. 157. AS. rǽcan …

    Oldest English Words

  • 53reach — I. v. a. 1. Extend, stretch, stretch forth, hold forth. 2. Touch in extent, extend to. 3. Strike, hit. 4. Arrive at, come to, get to, get at, make way to. 5. Get, obtain, attain to, gain, be advanced to. II. v. n. Extend, be extended. III …

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  • 54reach — The proportion of a total market that an advertiser hopes to reach at least once within a given period in an advertising campaign …

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  • 55reach — v 1. stretch out or forth; outstretch, extend, hold out, thrust out, stick out. 2. touch, grasp, seize; clutch at, grab at, catch at. 3. attain, gain, accomplish, achieve, make, Inf. make it, Inf. get there; amount to, come to, run to, measure up …

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  • 56reach — /ri:tʃ/ verb to get to an audience ■ noun the actual number of people who will see an advertisement once (as opposed to the frequency, which is the number of times one person sees an advertisement over a given period of time) ● The success of an… …

    Marketing dictionary in english

  • 57reach — /ri:tʃ/ verb to get to something ♦ to reach an accommodation with creditors to agree terms for settlement with creditors …

    Dictionary of banking and finance

  • 58reach — see stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach …

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  • 59reach — [OE] Reach goes back ultimately to a prehistoric West Germanic *raikjan, a word of uncertain origin which also produced German reichen and Dutch reiken. It originally meant ‘stretch out the hand’, and ‘attain’ and ‘arrive at’ are secondary… …

    Word origins

  • 60Reach for the Top — is a Canadian game show in which teams of high school students participate in local, provincial and eventually national trivia tournaments. The non televised tournaments held at high schools throughout Canada during the year are known as… …

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