purview

UK /ˈpɜː(ɹ)vjuː/ US /ˈpɜː(ɹ)vjuː/

noun 4

Definitions

noun

The enacting part of a statute.

The scope of a statute.

Scope or range of interest or control.

Will it be said that the fundamental principles of the Confederation were not within the purview of the convention, and ought not to have been varied?

Rhetorical relations have truth conditional effects that contribute to meaning but lie outside the purview of compositional semantics.

Range of understanding.

Our company were noisy, gay, quarrelsome, full of facile theories, with glib explanations of everything, persuaded that there is nothing they could not understand and no human destiny outside the purview of their system.

Collocations

ADJ.

compositional, outside

VERB + PURVIEW

lie

PURVIEW + NOUN

convention, president, semantics

PREP.

within

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Will it be said that the fundamental principles of the Confederation were not within the purview of the convention, and ought not to have been varied?

Wiktionary

Rhetorical relations have truth conditional effects that contribute to meaning but lie outside the purview of compositional semantics.

Wiktionary

Several air marshals have asked Congress to remove the program from T.S.A.’s purview and entrust it to a different agency, like Customs and Border Protection or the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Wiktionary

That is outside my purview.

Tatoeba · #987486

First, some viewed Thanksgiving as a religious holiday, which put it outside of the purview of the president.

Tatoeba · #8351049

That's Tom's purview.

Tatoeba · #12365191

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