Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

across-the-board

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.94 in modern English

Syllables: across-the-board
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

wide or comprehensive in scope or applicability.

adj

Aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays).

Example Sentences

"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."
"Former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance continue to falsely describe how one of their major policy proposals, across-the-board tariffs, would work."
"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."

Synonyms

exhaustive thorough all-embracing all-encompassing all-inclusive blanket broad encompassing extensive panoptic wide

Questions

What does across-the-board mean?: wide or comprehensive in scope or applicability.

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