across-the-board

See also: across the board

English

Adjective

across-the-board

1. wide or comprehensive in scope or applicability.

   They recently made across-the-board changes to the benefits package.

   • 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:

     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.

   • 2024 September 9, Katie Lobosco, “Fact check: Trump and Vance keep falsely describing how tariffs work”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     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.

Synonyms

• exhaustive, thorough; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive