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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Complete and whole
(all) in one pieceidiom
aggregate
all or nothingidiom
all toldidiom
all-in-one
all-inclusive
fell
fibre
full strength
full-length
fully
fully fledged
globally
systemic
thoroughgoingly
thoroughly
through and throughidiom
to the lastidiom
totality
toto

entirety | American Dictionary

entirety
noun[ U ]
us/ɪnˈtɑɪ·rə·t̬i, -ˈtɑɪər·t̬i/
 in its entirety
Something in its entirety means all of something from beginning to end:
I never read the contract in its entirety, just parts of it.

entirety | Business English

entirety
noun[ S ]
uk /ɪnˈtaɪərəti/us
 in its entirety
with all parts included:
The shareholder value committee will explore selling the company in its entirety, instead of a piecemeal sale of assets.

Examples of entirety

entirety
But his sons, as new-born family members, have a family right, by virtue of birth itself, to the entirety and its use rights.
Words or respirations, they are thus perceived straightaway in their entirety, as if they have no length, just one 'blow to the ear'.
It must be done if we are to take upon ourselves the entirety of our human state.
They manage to sustain a dynamic and coherent 'score' for a film's entirety, without benefit of a thematic thread.
Let us now depart from questions concerning single rays and consider the escaping sets of exponential maps in their entirety.
Her voice has to be considered in its entirety if a proper assessment of her life and work is to be made.
These vignettes are heard in their entirety from time to time.
By looking at the entirety of a phenomenon we can get hints about what models could explain it.
Looking at such flows in their entirety, we can draw some interesting conclusions in spite of the entropy change across the shock.
Even for specialists, it has become too vast to be grasped in its entirety.
I have now sketched the argument in its entirety.
Why did he not follow the consequences of this view and present an organized causal picture of nature in its entirety?
These results support the assertion that diet should be considered in its entirety when assessing environmental impact.
On a ferry ride, one was witness to the entirety of the life and context of the city.
Regulations are directly binding upon member states, while directives must be transposed in their entirety into national law, leaving implementation to national governments.
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