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global

 adjective
     
Related topics: Politics, Computers
glo‧bal W3
1P affecting or including the whole world [↪ universal]:
global climate change
the global economy
2 considering all the parts of a problem or situation together:
We are taking a global view of our business.
3TD affecting a whole computer system, program, or file
—globally adverb
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