scope
/skoʊp/ noun B1- The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; the extent of applicability or relevance; a domain, purview or remit. · Environmental impacts lie outside the scope of this report.· Such transactions fall within the scope of VAT.
- A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- Potential range of action; degree of freedom; opportunity. · My job doesn't give me much scope for personal development.
- The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
- The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
- The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies. · the scope of an adverb
- Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
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Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?
‘There was more scope for imagination,’ she said.
But there is so little scope for the imagination in an asylum--only just in the other orphans.
There was scope for imagination here.
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