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• across-the-board

Adjective

across the board

1. (idiomatic) pertaining to all categories or things
   • 1949, United States Congress Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Hearings:

     […] in favor of a straight across-the-board salary increase […]

   • 1983, A. Premchard, Government Budgeting and Expenditure: Theory and Practice:

     A common technique (variously known as an emergency brake or meat axe budgeting) used by governments is across-the-board cuts;

   • 1998, Shahid Javed Burki, Guillermo Perry, Beyond the Washington Consensus: Institutions Matter:

     Chile provides the region's best example of a country that has successfully reformed its core public administration across the board.

2. a racing bet where one bets that the same competitor will place in first, second and third

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