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Mainstream stores get in the products that will cover their markets but don't go further afield which is a real shame for the consumers; there is a world of gaming out there that they may never know through ignorance or a lack or knowledge.

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  1. adverb Off the usual or desired track. See Synonyms at amiss.
  2. adverb Away from one's home or usual environment.
  3. adverb To or on a field.

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  • Mainstream stores get in the products that will cover their markets but don't go further afield which is a real shame for the consumers; there is a world of gaming out there that they may never know through ignorance or a lack or knowledge. —  This Is Fake DIY
  • Looking further afield, the US is more religious than Europe with 89 percent of people holding some type of faith. —  EUobserver.com - Headline News
  • Further afield, the region's complicated water politics, where upstream and downstream countries have diametrically opposed needs and aims, threatens to boil over. —  Ferghana.Ru news agency
  • Now the hemp grown in the fields around Barnstaple and further afield is harvested, pressed in the oil mill and bottled under the label Good Oil. —  Life and style | guardian.co.uk
  • Further back afield, the SQL server was also acting up, preventing readers 'comments from being lapped up. —  Anime Nano!
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  1. from Middle English a felde, o felde, o feld, from Anglo-Saxon on felda (dative), on feld (accusative): on, English a, on, in; feld, English field.
 

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