0 affecting everyone or everything within an organization, system, or society:
1 happening or having an effect on people at every level and in every area:
The improvement has been across the board, with all divisions either increasing profits or reducing losses.
The initiative has across-the-board support.
2 having an effect on everyone or everything of a particular type:
The mayor threatened across-the-board spending cuts.
3 involving everyone or everything in a company, situation, group, etc.:
4 in a way that involves everyone or everything in a company, situation, group etc.:
As an exploratory study, the aim was not to produce across-the-board conclusions about a children's 'standpoint' on responsibility, but to explore children's ideas and understandings.
These facts suggest that word order change (to non-inverted forms) is not an across-the-board phenomenon at any age group, including the youngest group.
There are also two distinct ways in which historical sound change takes place : across-the-board change versus lexical diffusion.
For the elderly, the flat rate gradually increased, and in 2003, changed to an across-the-board 10% co-insurance rate.
No major player actively wished to enforce the cap, with its arbitrary and across-the-board cost reductions.
Indeed, genuine across-the-board pre-aspiration is almost never found, the reasons for its rarity and diachronic instability lying in its lack of phonetic salience.
Despite the across-the-board ratio cut, the 1985 grant reduction hit social benefits particularly hard.
This suggests a wide, across-the-board acceptance of the technology.
