across-the-board

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across the board | American Dictionary

across the board
adjective, adverb
us/əˈkrɔs ðə ˈbɔrd, əˈkrɑs, ˈboʊrd/(alsoacross-the-board)
having an effect on everyone or everything of a particular type:
The mayor threatened across-the-board spending cuts.

across-the-board | Business English

across-the-board
adjective[ usually before noun ]
ukus
involving everyone or everything in a company, situation, group, etc.:
an across-the-board cut/decline/reductionThis economic plan calls for a 15% across-the-board cut in personal income tax rates
an across-the-board increase/raise/rise
across-the-board
adverb
ukus
in a way that involves everyone or everything in a company, situation, group etc.:
be/apply across the boardThese sales increases are across the board in most of our important product areas and in all four business segments.
rise/fall across the board

Examples of across-the-board

across-the-board
As an exploratory study, the aim was not to produce across-the-board conclusions about a children's 'standpoint' on responsibility, but to explore children's ideas and understandings.
These facts suggest that word order change (to non-inverted forms) is not an across-the-board phenomenon at any age group, including the youngest group.
There are also two distinct ways in which historical sound change takes place : across-the-board change versus lexical diffusion.
For the elderly, the flat rate gradually increased, and in 2003, changed to an across-the-board 10% co-insurance rate.
No major player actively wished to enforce the cap, with its arbitrary and across-the-board cost reductions.
Indeed, genuine across-the-board pre-aspiration is almost never found, the reasons for its rarity and diachronic instability lying in its lack of phonetic salience.
Despite the across-the-board ratio cut, the 1985 grant reduction hit social benefits particularly hard.
This suggests a wide, across-the-board acceptance of the technology.
The issue is the way that crisis narratives suggest across-the-board imposition of solutions that may only be appropriate for certain settings.
Firms are the only winners, now earning higher profits because of their ability to outsource and the across-the-board reduction in wages.
Based on vocabulary measures, we suggest that instead of the across-the-board frequency insensitivity proposed by some, a higher frequency threshold characterizes these subjects' performance.
The greatest unfairness would be a policy of across-the-board rises that would not benefit the privileged nor help the poor substantially.
But such across-the-board opposition to political expression is not limited to flag burning.
This means that an across-the-board increase in farm output prices of 10 per cent would cause the stock of biomass to fall about 1.3 per cent in the long run.
Instead, the central government in 1985 implemented an across-the-board 10 per cent reduction of share rations in all partial subsidies that covered more than 50 per cent of expenses.
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