purview
Collocations
4ADJ.
compositional, outside
VERB + PURVIEW
lie
PURVIEW + NOUN
convention, president, semantics
PREP.
within
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.
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Example Bank
6Will 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?
WiktionaryRhetorical relations have truth conditional effects that contribute to meaning but lie outside the purview of compositional semantics.
WiktionarySeveral 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.
WiktionaryThat is outside my purview.
Tatoeba · #987486First, some viewed Thanksgiving as a religious holiday, which put it outside of the purview of the president.
Tatoeba · #8351049That's Tom's purview.
Tatoeba · #12365191