across-the-board
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See also: across the board
English
Adjective
- 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