MEANING
Relating to or affecting a system broadly rather than one isolated part.
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- systemic problem
- systemic risk
- systemic treatment
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The report identified a systemic problem.
The bank’s failure created systemic risk.
The treatment had systemic rather than local effects.
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Primary category: academic. Forms: More systemic; most systemic where degree is meaningful; relational uses are normally non-gradable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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