across-the-board
See also: across the board
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]- 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.
Synonyms
[edit]- exhaustive, thorough; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive