Across-the-board
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Across-the-board is an adjective meaning wide or comprehensive in scope or applicability.
Meaning
wide or comprehensive in scope or applicability.
More Meanings
- (television) 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.
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.
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.
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 for across-the-board
Depending on context, synonyms include exhaustive, thorough, comprehensive, broad, panoptic, encompassing.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include comprehensive, all-embracing, all-encompassing, broad, wide, panoptic.
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