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noun opportunity ADJ. full In her new house she had full scope for her passion for gardening. | ample, considerable, enormous, great, tremendous | limited VERB + SCOPE have | allow (sb), give sb, leave (sb), offer (sb), provide (sb with) These courses give students more scope for developing their own ideas. | increase | cut down, reduce PREP. ~ for There is limited scope for creativity in my job. range/extent ADJ. broad, wide | limited, narrow The scope of the exhibition is disappointingly narrow. | geographical, territorial The geographical scope of product markets has widened since the war. VERB + SCOPE broaden, expand, extend, increase, widen | limit, reduce, restrict | define, determine These criteria were used to determine the scope of the curriculum. SCOPE + VERB broaden, expand, extend, increase, widen | narrow PREP. beyond/outside the ~ of The subject lies outside the scope of this book. | in (sth's) ~ The survey is too limited in (its) scope. | within the ~ of These disputes fall within the scope of the local courts.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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Phrase(s): scope (on) someone
Sl. to evaluate a member of the opposite sex visually. • He scoped every girl who came in the door. • He wouldn’t like it if somebody scoped on him. Or would he?
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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scope
adjectives
broad
• The new book has a broader scope.
limited/narrow
• The scope of the research was quite limited.
verbs
widen/broaden the scope of something
• The police are widening the scope of their investigation.
extend/expand the scope of something
• They may extend the scope of the project.
narrow/limit the scope of something
• He had severely limited the scope of his autobiography.
define the scope of something
(= say exactly what the scope is )
• The group’s first task was to define the scope of the review.
come/fall within the scope of something
(= be included in it )
• Banks and building societies fall within the scope of the new legislation.
fall outside the scope of something
(= not be included in it )
• His later exploits in Persia fall outside the scope of this book.
phrases
be limited/restricted in scope
• The law is quite limited in scope.
be national/international/global in scope
(= include a whole country, several countries, or the whole world )
• Some markets are local while others are national or international in scope.
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