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wrap-around
 adj.— «Prime Network offers regionals a national feed which they can access as a wrap-around service to their locally-originated programming.» —“Prime Network adds 2.7 million subscribers” in Atlanta, Georgia Business Wire May 21, 1990. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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