scopenoun [ U ]
uk/skəʊp/us/skoʊp/scope noun [ U ] (RANGE)
C1 the range of a subject covered by a book, programme, discussion, class, etc.:
I'm afraid that problem is beyond/outside the scope of my lecture.
Oil painting does not come within the scope of a course of this kind.
We would now like to broaden/widen the scope of the enquiry and look at more general matters.
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- The campaign appears to be growing in scope and intensity.
- She complained that the plan was too limited in scope.
- The scope of those talks is still to be determined.
- Other schemes are much broader in their scope.
- The matter falls outside the scope of the present committee.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Range and limits
- all the way to idiom
- ambit
- band
- bound
- boundary
- breadth
- condition
- limit
- limited
- meta-
- narrow
- narrowly
- range
- spread
- stricture
- string
- strings attached idiom
- term
- the gamut
- threshold
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scope noun [ U ] (OPPORTUNITY)
C2 the opportunity for doing something:
There is limited scope for further reductions in the workforce.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Opportunity
- a free ride idiom
- another/a second bite at/of the cherry idiom
- best bet idiom
- bite
- break
- chance
- half
- it's now or never idiom
- look in
- make hay while the sun shines idiom
- manqué
- miss
- op
- pass
- the run of sth idiom
- the world is sb's oyster idiom
- there are plenty more fish in the sea idiom
- toehold
- too good to miss idiom
- window
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