across-the-board

See also: across the board

English

Adjective

across-the-board

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

exhaustive, thorough; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive

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