scope

noun

OPAL W

/skəʊp/

[uncountable]

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the opportunity or ability to do or achieve something synonym potential
- scope for something There's still plenty of scope for improvement.
- Her job offers very little scope for promotion.
- scope (for somebody) (to do something) The extra money will give us the scope to improve our facilities.
- within somebody's scope First try to do something that is within your scope.
Extra Examples
- There is limited scope for creativity in my job.
- These courses give students more scope for developing their own ideas.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- full
- ample
- considerable
- …
verb + scope
- have
- allow (somebody)
- give somebody
- …
preposition
- scope for
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the range of things that a subject, an organization, an activity, etc. deals with
- The police are broadening the scope of their investigation.
- in scope Our powers are limited in scope.
- beyond the scope of something This subject lies beyond the scope of our investigation.
- outside the scope of something These issues were outside the scope of the article.
Extra Examples
- This is a novel of epic scope and grand passions.
- These disputes fall within the scope of the local courts.
- These criteria were used to determine the scope of the curriculum.
- The survey is too limited in (its) scope.
- The sheer scope of the project was impressive.
- The scope of the exhibition is disappointingly narrow.
- The geographical scope of product markets has widened since the war.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- broad
- wide
- epic
- …
verb + scope
- broaden
- enlarge
- expand
- …
scope + verb
- broaden
- expand
- extend
- …
preposition
- beyond the scope of
- outside the scope of
- in (something’s) scope
- …
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-scope
(in nouns) an instrument for looking through or watching something with
- microscope
- telescope

Word Originnoun senses 1 to 2 mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘target for shooting at’): from Italian scopo ‘aim’, from Greek skopos ‘target’, from skeptesthai ‘look out’. noun sense 3 early 17th cent. from modern Latin -scopium, from Greek skopein ‘look at’. The verb dates from the 1970s.

scope

verb

/skəʊp/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they scope	/skəʊp/ /skəʊp/
he / she / it scopes	/skəʊps/ /skəʊps/
past simple scoped	/skəʊpt/ /skəʊpt/
past participle scoped	/skəʊpt/ /skəʊpt/
-ing form scoping	/ˈskəʊpɪŋ/ /ˈskəʊpɪŋ/

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scope something (informal) to look at or examine something carefully and completely
- His eyes scoped the room, trying to spot her in the crowd.
to examine something carefully before you start work on it so that you know the size of the task
- scope something The information helped us scope the project.
- scope something out They had already scoped out project needs and costs.

Word Originverb early 17th cent. from modern Latin -scopium, from Greek skopein ‘look at’. The verb dates from the 1970s.

Scope

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a British charity which helps people with a disability, especially those with cerebral palsy (= a condition caused by brain damage before or at birth, which makes people lose control of their movements). It was formed in 1952 as the Spastics Society and given the new name Scope in 1994. It has several schools and other centres in Britain.

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