across-the-board

adj 2

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adj

1

wide or comprehensive in scope or applicability.

They recently made across-the-board changes to the benefits package.

Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%. Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more.

2

Aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays).

ABC-TV this week put into effect its long anticipated plans to move into daytime programming in a bigger way by opening up its 4-5 across-the-board strip. The web is using its "Mickey Mouse Club," which is stoutly anchored in the 5-6 p.m. slot, as a backing up point for its afternoon expansion.

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