The phrase "broadly means" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to provide a general or overarching definition of a term or concept.
Example: "In the context of economics, inflation broadly means the increase in prices over time."
Alternatives: "generally refers to" or "essentially signifies".
Many properties and buildings here are untitled, which broadly means that owners cannot seek mortgages or get title insurance on land.
They are traditionalist Catholics, which very broadly means they keep the old ways: that is, Catholicism as defined by the Council of Trent until the Second Vatican Council in 1963.
You now have to start the formal process, and what that broadly means is you just submit all the same information again, and it will look at it more seriously.
Led by Meredith Cornett, the chapter's science director, the conservancy wants to test "assisted migration", a lightning-rod conservation practice that broadly means moving species from one region to another either to help that species or the target region adapt to changing conditions.
Presenting his critique in the form of a series of dialogues between an old philosopher and a student companion, Nietzsche argues that education (he uses the German word Bildung, a term with multiple senses but that broadly means the formation of culture and individual character) has been degraded by being subordinated to other goals.
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway Having stuck a thoroughly gloomy Gertrude Stein aperçu about a "lost generation" at the head of this story of émigrés in France and Spain in the 1920s, Hemingway balanced it with a passage from the Book of Ecclesiastes which broadly means "life goes on".
Professor Smith wrote that two centuries ago the word "religion" -- meaning Christianity, Judaism, Islam or another faith -- "broadly meant a way of life," Professor Esposito said.
At least that was true where the Royal Navy held sway, which broadly meant anywhere on the seven seas.
Curry was introduced in Britain through the East India Company and came to broadly mean any saucy or spicy Indian dish, and has little to do with authentic Indian food.
The independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, who almost managed to drive Clinton from office, once declared of the president's transgression (to reporters, while carrying out his trash), "You cannot defile the temple of justice," by which he narrowly meant lying in a legal proceeding, namely a civil suit brought by one Paula Jones, and more broadly meant lying, period.
In its ruling, the appeals court leaned on an earlier Washington State Supreme Court case that said the reimbursement law was broadly meant to ensure that no "costs of defense" are borne by a person acting legally to protect his or her life.
