across-the-board

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across-the-board

adjective

  1. wide or comprehensive in scope or applicability. They recently made across-the-board changes to the benefits package.
  2. Aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays). 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.

Similar: exhaustive, thorough

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Similar: exhaustive, thorough

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@misc{across_the_board_2026,
  title = {across-the-board},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/across-the-board},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}