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across-the-board

across-the-board adjective: wide or comprehensive in scope or applicability.

Adjective

across-the-board

  1. wide or comprehensive in scope or applicability.
    • They recently made across-the-board changes to the benefits package.
    • Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%. Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more.2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3
  2. Aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays).
    • ABC-TV this week put into effect its long anticipated plans to move into daytime programming in a bigger way by opening up its 4-5 across-the-board strip. The web is using its "Mickey Mouse Club," which is stoutly anchored in the 5-6 p.m. slot, as a backing up point for its afternoon expansion.1955, Billboard, page 5

Synonyms of across-the-board

Questions about across-the-board

What does across-the-board mean?
Across-the-board means wide or comprehensive in scope or applicability.
What part of speech is across-the-board?
Across-the-board is an adjective.

Words near across-the-board in the dictionary

  1. across the line
  2. across the pond
  3. across the way
  4. across variable
  5. across variables
  6. across-the-board
  7. acrosses
  8. acrosst
  9. acrosswise
  10. acrost
  11. acrostatic

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