comprehensive
IPA: kɑmprihˈɛnsɪv
noun
- (Britain) A comprehensive school.
adjective
- Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
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Examples of "comprehensive" in Sentences
- He uses the term comprehensive immigration reform a lot more often.
- First, we dropped the word comprehensive from the title of the bill.
- The Bush administration tended not to use "comprehensive," a code word for peace between Israel and all its remaining Arab adversaries: the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon.
- Besides summit diplomacy, he says China will pursue country-specific, region-specific and area-specific diplomacy in what he described as a "comprehensive" and "coordinated way".
- They say APEC will move toward a more concrete vision of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, including what they call comprehensive, high quality liberalization to address "next generation" trade and investment issues.
- As a price for this deal — which will likely require Berlin committing to lend more money to weak euro-zone states if needed — Germany wants what it calls a comprehensive agreement aimed at improving the competitiveness of euro-zone countries' economies.
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