English-French translations for wide open

• grand ouvert
• incertain

Definition of wide open

• completely open
• having no laws or law enforcement
• unsettled or unresolved
• vulnerable or unprotected
• without the presence of opponents nearby
• of the situation at the beginning of trading when there is a large spread between bid and ask prices

Examples

• The front door was wide open.
• It was a wide open frontier town before the railroad came.
• The fate of the loan sailor is still wide open.
• He left himself wide open to criticism.
• He was wide open and scored easily after receiving the pass.

Related words

• open wide
• open ones mouth too wide
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