Usually means: Extent or range of influence.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. reach: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reach: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reach: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reach: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reach: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reach, reach: Wordnik
  7. reach: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. REACH, reach: Wiktionary
  9. reach: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reach: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reach: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. reach: Dictionary.com
  13. reach: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. reach: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. REACH (Singapore), REACH, Reach (Eyes Set to Kill album), Reach (Gloria Estefan song), Reach (Meredith Edwards album), Reach (S Club 7 song), Reach (Survivor album), Reach (advertising), Reach (brand), Reach (comics), Reach (geography), Reach (physical measurement), Reach (song), Reach, The Reach: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Reach: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. reach: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. reach: Rhymezone
  19. reach: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. reach: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. REACH: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. reach: Free Dictionary
  23. reach: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. reach: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. reach: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. REACH: Accounting Glossary
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Reach: Moneyterms
  6. Glossary of Media Terms (No longer online)
  7. Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)
  8. reach: Legal dictionary
  9. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Reach: Radio Programming and Production
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. reach: Netlingo
  2. reach: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. REACH: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. REACH: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. reach: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. REACH: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
  2. Glossary of chlorine and other chemical related terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. reach, reach: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Reach: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reach: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. reach: Master Mariner
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Reach: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions
  7. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
verb:  (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
verb:  (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
verb:  (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
verb:  (transitive, of a missile) To strike or touch.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
verb:  (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
verb:  (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To make contact with.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
verb:  (intransitive, India, Singapore) To arrive at a particular destination.
verb:  (transitive) To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
verb:  (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
verb:  To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
verb:  (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
verb:  (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
verb:  (slang, MTE, MLE) To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
noun:  The act of stretching or extending; extension.
noun:  The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
noun:  The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
noun:  Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
noun:  (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
noun:  (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
noun:  (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
noun:  (nautical) The distance traversed between tacks.
noun:  (nautical) A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
noun:  A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
noun:  An extended portion or area of land or water.
noun:  (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
noun:  The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
verb:  (obsolete or dialect) Alternative form of retch. [(transitive, intransitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.]
noun:  (obsolete or dialect) Alternative form of retch. [An unsuccessful effort to vomit.]
noun:  Acronym of Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals.

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