variants or multi-site
: involving, occurring at, or having more than one site or location
a multisite clinical trial
multisite collaboration
Unfortunately, the report excludes 38% of workers who work at multisite businesses (such as Starbucks or Target). King5.com (Seattle, Washington)
also : of, relating to, or involving more than one website
Multisite digital wallets have also arrived. Earlier this year, CyberCash (www.cybercash.com) introduced a no-download-required wallet that remembers credit card and address info so you don't have to reenter your data at every online store. Entertainment Weekly

Examples of multisite in a Sentence

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To complement this, large banks normally have disaster-recovery sites to use in the event of a problem and multisite operations for redundancy. Ann Schlemmer, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025 But because cardiac drugs have grown so much more potent since 2005, a major multisite study is underway to determine, among patients at lower risk of sudden death, whether medications alone might now be more effective. Paula Span, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1936, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of multisite was in 1936

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“Multisite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multisite. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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