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Definition of comprehensive in English: comprehensiveadjective kɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪvˌkɑmprəˈhɛnsɪv 1Including or dealing with all or nearly all elements or aspects of something. a comprehensive list of sources Example sentencesExamples - Both states signed their treaties claiming they were elements of a comprehensive peace.
- The documentary shows its age, but it provides a fairly comprehensive overview of the legendary director.
- This will include the development of a comprehensive manual for all aspects of driver licencing including that of driving schools and instructors.
- The training videos contain comprehensive information on all aspects of good environmental practice at farm level, presented in an interesting and stimulating manner.
- Though a large volume of literature is available on the issues discussed in the book it is a comprehensive treatise on related aspects of food and nutrition and the editors have taken pain to deal with every aspect.
- This comprehensive volume of nearly 600 poems, many accompanied by the Spanish original, bursts with evocative images.
- But these are unavoidable aspects of a comprehensive exposition of any subject.
- The result is the first comprehensive analysis of preventable patient deaths linked to infections within 5,810 hospitals nationally.
- Its Explore Kodiak guide has a comprehensive list of outfitters and free activities.
- Take a peek at our comprehensive guide to dining out in the city.
- More and more colleges and universities are developing comprehensive diversity plans to guide changes in campus policies and procedures.
- Currently the only possible source for a comprehensive list of travellers, as we've already established, lies in the carriers' passenger lists.
- From a comprehensive list of nearly 1,600 daily newspapers, 500 newspapers were selected using standard interval sampling.
- Seeing the problems his students faced, Mr. Silman has created the first comprehensive strategic guide in dictionary form.
- The entire nightmare could have been avoided had he kept comprehensive documentation of his dealings with the plaintiffs.
- It called for constituting a committee to conduct a comprehensive review of all aspects of the party's performance and make recommendations for future plan of action.
- That was one element within a comprehensive report.
- The Guide contains a comprehensive list of businesses and services in the town and contains a very useful street map of Ballinrobe.
- I thought he was fairly comprehensive in his coverage of various issues.
- Some sites offer links to others and through such links a reasonably comprehensive list can be obtained.
Synonyms diverse, diversified, wide, broad, broad-based, eclectic, indiscriminate - 1.1 Of large content or scope; wide-ranging.
a comprehensive collection of photographs Example sentencesExamples - Naval historians would do well to familiarize themselves with his style of narrative, his comprehensive coverage, and scope of research.
- Yet, inevitably, the comprehensive scope of Ackroyd's book requires that he sometimes sacrifice elaboration for example, depth for breadth.
- Unbelievable in its comprehensive scope, the vast material supports a view of Africa as the archetypal artistic environment.
- Their collaborative research is quite comprehensive in its scope.
- The volume does not cover all issues in detail and it was not intended to be comprehensive in scope.
- Sir Gawaine's British West Indies collection is part of a wider comprehensive collection of stamps from Great Britain and the British Empire.
- This presentation is comprehensive in scope but lacks much historical analysis.
- It combines a comprehensive scope, concisely written entries and the best in current biblical scholarship.
- Making broad scope, comprehensive documentaries about an event the magnitude of World War II is a tall order, often with less than satisfactory results.
- The Convention is extraordinarily comprehensive in scope.
- The Senate Inquiry into mandatory sentencing was broad-ranging, thorough and comprehensive in terms of scope and evidence.
- Although debate on the measure was fairly abbreviated, the resulting measure was comprehensive in both its scope and design.
- The design phase is comprehensive in scope, tackling everything from content and design to functionality and user interface.
- Because it is comprehensive in scope and specific in detail, it can eliminate the ambiguities that exist in most partnerships.
- The Guardian's more comprehensive survey also came up with far higher job losses than the government admits.
- Its thorough research and comprehensive scope should prove invaluable for anyone seriously interested in the subject.
- The authors make no claims for completeness, indeed are transparent about the gaps, yet this book is impressively comprehensive in scale, scope and analytical range.
- This is a wide ranging and comprehensive survey of children and the experience of childhood.
Synonyms inclusive, all-inclusive, complete thorough, full, extensive, all-embracing, overarching, umbrella, exhaustive, in-depth, encyclopedic, universal, catholic, eclectic far-reaching, radical, sweeping, across the board, blanket, wholesale broad, wide, wide-ranging, broad-ranging widespread, nationwide, countrywide, coast-to-coast detailed, compendious cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary informal wall-to-wall - 1.2 (of a victory or defeat) achieved or suffered by a large margin.
a comprehensive victory for Swansea Example sentencesExamples - Selby Warriors also won their first game in PN division five, albeit by only a single point, and they will be looking for a more comprehensive victory on Saturday as they visit the hapless Panthers.
- Last October's comprehensive defeats by the Irish at both senior and under-21 levels on their own soil shows Kelly that the opposition has stepped up a gear.
- However, this was a very comprehensive victory, a complete team performance.
- Gloucester were a distant second-best as 12,500 Munster fans roared their side on to a comprehensive victory which gives them an away quarter-final in April.
- But Cameron could not argue that Thursday's decisive victory was comprehensive, because his forward march appears to have ground to a halt at the northern boundaries of Middle England.
- Brookes added the goal to complete a comprehensive victory for Albion.
- Almost immediately afterwards, the Under-17s cemented victory in their own league with a comprehensive defeat of visitors Sandbach.
- Hamed, back for the first time since his comprehensive defeat to Marco Antonio Barrera in Las Vegas, looked sluggish and occasionally even disinterested.
- The last thing they need now is this afternoon's game at Leeds, who will be desperate to recover from the disappointment of Wednesday's comprehensive defeat by Real Madrid.
- Three minutes after Hartson made it three, Petrov made it four and what was looking like a comprehensive victory started heading inexorably towards a humiliation.
- The Oxford Kings' defense struggled through the first five innings of Sunday's game against the Cambridge Monarchs, allowing the Tabs to take eight runs on the way to a comprehensive victory.
- Salford's comprehensive victory laid down a significant marker ahead of the play-offs and will have created considerable doubt in Leigh minds.
- Richmond continued their domination in both league and cup with a comprehensive victory over Dorking in the Surrey Cup quarter-finals.
- Their comprehensive defeat was confounded even further yesterday when they visited Yorkshire Academy in the League Cup quarter-finals.
- Oxford UCCE women's cricket team began this season as they finished the last - with a comprehensive victory over their Cambridge rivals.
- Cork's attack was toothless that day and, in a game that was stuffy for long enough, Tipperary's eight-point victory was comprehensive.
- Blue is the colour in North Yorkshire today after the Conservative Party swept to a comprehensive victory in the county council elections.
- With his opponent looking tired, Khan took full advantage landing plenty of powerful shots to secure a comprehensive victory.
- Deputy head teacher Patrick Earnshaw, who witnessed the school's comprehensive victory at Kendal Town Hall on Thursday night, said he was extremely proud of his students.
- After their comprehensive defeat at Scarborough last Saturday, York will be looking to get their Oxbridge ECB Yorkshire Premier League programme back on the rails this weekend.
- 1.3 (of motor-vehicle insurance) providing cover for most risks, including damage to the policyholder's own vehicle.
Example sentencesExamples - He thought that all drivers should be made to have fully comprehensive insurance and that driving jobs should be given to local people.
- This insurance is designed to protect motorists from payout shortfalls that could arise between the original price paid for a car and the comprehensive insurance payout in the case of loss.
- Even those who have fully comprehensive motor insurance while driving in the UK need to check, as most policies only offer third-party cover on the continent.
- If you happen to own a posh motor, or are particularly accident-prone, then you might consider taking out fully comprehensive insurance.
- It must be comprehensive insurance, because you're driving someone else's car.
- Some cost items will differ for different vehicle types, notably comprehensive insurance, but in the main it is reasonable to use fleet size.
- He agreed only after ensuring that he was covered under the defendant's comprehensive car insurance policy.
- The good news for motorists with fully comprehensive insurance is that they are covered if their car has water damage.
- Motorists with fully comprehensive insurance mistakenly think they have insurance for the contents of their car along with the car itself.
- The cost of comprehensive motor insurance has almost doubled, rising by 86%.
- For example, a 56-year-old driving a 2001 Toyota Avensis received a quote of €735 from Axa for comprehensive insurance.
- Is it possible to take out one insurance policy, preferably comprehensive, that would cover us all to drive either of the cars?
- A typical comprehensive and collision policy will usually only cover the fair market value for your car.
2British Relating to or denoting a system of secondary education in which children of all abilities from a particular area are educated in one school. Example sentencesExamples - The comprehensive education system was last night seized upon as a key factor in reducing the chances of Scots born between 1967 and 1976 bettering themselves.
- For her, as for much of the Scottish educational establishment, the comprehensive system is sacrosanct.
- Supporters of the comprehensive system pointed to the figures as evidence that selective education in the state sector was unnecessary.
- Mike says the play, which criticises the values that prevail in the comprehensive school education system, is ideal for young performers.
- It is important that all schools see themselves, and are seen, as part of a comprehensive system of secondary education.
- Historically, comprehensive secondary education in mixed-ability schools was first introduced by Labour.
- We have given long-standing support to comprehensive education and we stand by that.
- Northern Ireland still uses the selective grammar school system that was largely replaced by comprehensive education in Britain in the 1970s.
- Because of the spread of comprehensive education from the mid-1960s, by 1990 only about 7 per cent of local authorities had retained grammar schools.
- I have fought for comprehensive education all my life, including during the 20 years I have been at Kingsland.
- Before the comprehensive state education systems were established, there had been some local control of schools and some local funds raised for them.
- Is the comprehensive education system to blame for making these teachers' jobs practically impossible?
- Catholic students entered University as never before, and were further aided by the introduction of comprehensive education.
- He introduced comprehensive education, women's emancipation legislation, and reforms in higher education.
- I don't believe we'd have the made the progress we have with girls' education without comprehensive education.
- League tables have led to a systematic attack on comprehensive education.
- She supports comprehensive education and opposes selection.
- The expansion of higher education has been on the back of comprehensive education.
- New Zealand has a fully comprehensive education system.
- The whole point of a comprehensive education system is to encourage the best and brightest pupils not merely to educate those with rich parents who went to private schools.
3archaic Relating to understanding.
nounkɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪvˌkɑmprəˈhɛnsɪv British A comprehensive school. he trained as an accountant after leaving the local comprehensive when I was 14 I was at comprehensive Example sentencesExamples - We should be defending mixed local comprehensives.
- Some of us were going to private schools or comprehensives, so we didn't have to take it.
- All but one of the top 26 state schools nationally were comprehensives.
- We do not argue that public comprehensives jettison their professional and technical programs.
- More than one in five teachers who taught some maths in comprehensives had nothing better than an A-Level in the subject, and the proportion fell to just over half in the case of RE.
- Instead, many went to council-run comprehensives and attended newer universities or none.
- About 12,000 pupils went on to study at the same 400 selective grammar schools or top-rated comprehensives.
- As today's exclusive survey shows, a massive gulf separates Bradford's highest-flying comprehensives from those with lower scores.
- More recently, he has declared opposition to comprehensives and support for the return of grammar schools.
- City academies - independent comprehensives part-funded by the private sector - and specialist schools will not be introduced north of the Border.
- ‘There is no point at which grammar schools exceed the performance of comprehensives at teaching able pupils,’ he said at the time.
- Plans to rebuild two other comprehensives - Beckfoot and Grange Technology College - plus new special schools will be included in a ‘second wave’ bid to be put in over the next few weeks.
- In the latest set of school league tables, comprehensives are getting results as good as or higher than grammar schools in the ‘value added’ part of the table.
- People power has forced councillors to rethink plans to change school catchment areas and bar scores of pupils from their local comprehensives.
- Laidlaw has given assurances that his schools would remain comprehensives and would take everyone from the catchment area.
- The majority of these producers did not attend fee-paying schools; more went to grammar schools or comprehensives.
- A Guardian leak suggests that one of the most scandalous proposals, letting ‘public’ schools take over comprehensives, may be restricted to London.
- About half went to fee-paying schools and the rest to state grammars and comprehensives.
- The snuffing out of that option, by the ideologically driven determination to replace grammar schools with comprehensives, was a quite explicit piece of social engineering.
- In England they have been transforming failed comprehensives into specialist schools and city academies.
Origin Early 17th century: from French compréhensif, -ive, from late Latin comprehensivus, from the verb comprehendere 'grasp mentally'. Rhymes apprehensive, coextensive, defensive, expensive, extensive, intensive, offensive, ostensive, pensive, suspensive Definition of comprehensive in US English: comprehensiveadjectiveˌkɑmprəˈhɛnsɪvˌkämprəˈhensiv 1Complete; including all or nearly all elements or aspects of something. a comprehensive list of sources Example sentencesExamples - The documentary shows its age, but it provides a fairly comprehensive overview of the legendary director.
- More and more colleges and universities are developing comprehensive diversity plans to guide changes in campus policies and procedures.
- Though a large volume of literature is available on the issues discussed in the book it is a comprehensive treatise on related aspects of food and nutrition and the editors have taken pain to deal with every aspect.
- The result is the first comprehensive analysis of preventable patient deaths linked to infections within 5,810 hospitals nationally.
- But these are unavoidable aspects of a comprehensive exposition of any subject.
- Its Explore Kodiak guide has a comprehensive list of outfitters and free activities.
- That was one element within a comprehensive report.
- Currently the only possible source for a comprehensive list of travellers, as we've already established, lies in the carriers' passenger lists.
- From a comprehensive list of nearly 1,600 daily newspapers, 500 newspapers were selected using standard interval sampling.
- Seeing the problems his students faced, Mr. Silman has created the first comprehensive strategic guide in dictionary form.
- Both states signed their treaties claiming they were elements of a comprehensive peace.
- This comprehensive volume of nearly 600 poems, many accompanied by the Spanish original, bursts with evocative images.
- The entire nightmare could have been avoided had he kept comprehensive documentation of his dealings with the plaintiffs.
- Some sites offer links to others and through such links a reasonably comprehensive list can be obtained.
- The Guide contains a comprehensive list of businesses and services in the town and contains a very useful street map of Ballinrobe.
- I thought he was fairly comprehensive in his coverage of various issues.
- The training videos contain comprehensive information on all aspects of good environmental practice at farm level, presented in an interesting and stimulating manner.
- Take a peek at our comprehensive guide to dining out in the city.
- It called for constituting a committee to conduct a comprehensive review of all aspects of the party's performance and make recommendations for future plan of action.
- This will include the development of a comprehensive manual for all aspects of driver licencing including that of driving schools and instructors.
Synonyms diverse, diversified, wide, broad, broad-based, eclectic, indiscriminate - 1.1 Of large content or scope; wide-ranging.
a comprehensive collection of photographs Example sentencesExamples - The volume does not cover all issues in detail and it was not intended to be comprehensive in scope.
- It combines a comprehensive scope, concisely written entries and the best in current biblical scholarship.
- Making broad scope, comprehensive documentaries about an event the magnitude of World War II is a tall order, often with less than satisfactory results.
- Sir Gawaine's British West Indies collection is part of a wider comprehensive collection of stamps from Great Britain and the British Empire.
- Yet, inevitably, the comprehensive scope of Ackroyd's book requires that he sometimes sacrifice elaboration for example, depth for breadth.
- Although debate on the measure was fairly abbreviated, the resulting measure was comprehensive in both its scope and design.
- Unbelievable in its comprehensive scope, the vast material supports a view of Africa as the archetypal artistic environment.
- Naval historians would do well to familiarize themselves with his style of narrative, his comprehensive coverage, and scope of research.
- Because it is comprehensive in scope and specific in detail, it can eliminate the ambiguities that exist in most partnerships.
- Its thorough research and comprehensive scope should prove invaluable for anyone seriously interested in the subject.
- The Senate Inquiry into mandatory sentencing was broad-ranging, thorough and comprehensive in terms of scope and evidence.
- This presentation is comprehensive in scope but lacks much historical analysis.
- The design phase is comprehensive in scope, tackling everything from content and design to functionality and user interface.
- This is a wide ranging and comprehensive survey of children and the experience of childhood.
- The authors make no claims for completeness, indeed are transparent about the gaps, yet this book is impressively comprehensive in scale, scope and analytical range.
- Their collaborative research is quite comprehensive in its scope.
- The Guardian's more comprehensive survey also came up with far higher job losses than the government admits.
- The Convention is extraordinarily comprehensive in scope.
Synonyms inclusive, all-inclusive, complete - 1.2 (of automobile insurance) providing coverage for most risks, including damage to the policyholder's own vehicle.
comprehensive and collision insurance Example sentencesExamples - If you happen to own a posh motor, or are particularly accident-prone, then you might consider taking out fully comprehensive insurance.
- A typical comprehensive and collision policy will usually only cover the fair market value for your car.
- Even those who have fully comprehensive motor insurance while driving in the UK need to check, as most policies only offer third-party cover on the continent.
- The cost of comprehensive motor insurance has almost doubled, rising by 86%.
- He agreed only after ensuring that he was covered under the defendant's comprehensive car insurance policy.
- Motorists with fully comprehensive insurance mistakenly think they have insurance for the contents of their car along with the car itself.
- Is it possible to take out one insurance policy, preferably comprehensive, that would cover us all to drive either of the cars?
- He thought that all drivers should be made to have fully comprehensive insurance and that driving jobs should be given to local people.
- Some cost items will differ for different vehicle types, notably comprehensive insurance, but in the main it is reasonable to use fleet size.
- This insurance is designed to protect motorists from payout shortfalls that could arise between the original price paid for a car and the comprehensive insurance payout in the case of loss.
- It must be comprehensive insurance, because you're driving someone else's car.
- The good news for motorists with fully comprehensive insurance is that they are covered if their car has water damage.
- For example, a 56-year-old driving a 2001 Toyota Avensis received a quote of €735 from Axa for comprehensive insurance.
- 1.3US An examination testing a student's command of a special field of knowledge.
Example sentencesExamples - A master's degree usually involves one to two years of coursework, a comprehensive examination over that coursework, and in some cases, a thesis.
- Currently in our program, a senior comprehensive examination is given, but is not required for either graduation or as eligibility to take a national certification examination.
- Unlike UMMC, 16 of the 40 respondents stated that passage of the comprehensive examination was a requirement for graduation.
- As an example, one student who by his own admission did not study for, nor pass the senior comprehensive examination, took a job that required that he have national certification.
- One student in a special AAC&U Annual Meeting focus group told that she had even opted to take one of her comprehensive examinations in pedagogy.
- The reality of life in Wereilu and in Ethiopia is that few students are able to pass the comprehensive examinations with a high enough mark to continue with tertiary education.
2archaic Relating to understanding.
nounˌkɑmprəˈhɛnsɪvˌkämprəˈhensiv in full comprehensive schoolBritish A secondary school catering to children of all abilities from a given area. Example sentencesExamples - About 12,000 pupils went on to study at the same 400 selective grammar schools or top-rated comprehensives.
- More recently, he has declared opposition to comprehensives and support for the return of grammar schools.
- A Guardian leak suggests that one of the most scandalous proposals, letting ‘public’ schools take over comprehensives, may be restricted to London.
- In the latest set of school league tables, comprehensives are getting results as good as or higher than grammar schools in the ‘value added’ part of the table.
- ‘There is no point at which grammar schools exceed the performance of comprehensives at teaching able pupils,’ he said at the time.
- Plans to rebuild two other comprehensives - Beckfoot and Grange Technology College - plus new special schools will be included in a ‘second wave’ bid to be put in over the next few weeks.
- Instead, many went to council-run comprehensives and attended newer universities or none.
- All but one of the top 26 state schools nationally were comprehensives.
- We do not argue that public comprehensives jettison their professional and technical programs.
- As today's exclusive survey shows, a massive gulf separates Bradford's highest-flying comprehensives from those with lower scores.
- People power has forced councillors to rethink plans to change school catchment areas and bar scores of pupils from their local comprehensives.
- The snuffing out of that option, by the ideologically driven determination to replace grammar schools with comprehensives, was a quite explicit piece of social engineering.
- Some of us were going to private schools or comprehensives, so we didn't have to take it.
- City academies - independent comprehensives part-funded by the private sector - and specialist schools will not be introduced north of the Border.
- We should be defending mixed local comprehensives.
- Laidlaw has given assurances that his schools would remain comprehensives and would take everyone from the catchment area.
- The majority of these producers did not attend fee-paying schools; more went to grammar schools or comprehensives.
- More than one in five teachers who taught some maths in comprehensives had nothing better than an A-Level in the subject, and the proportion fell to just over half in the case of RE.
- In England they have been transforming failed comprehensives into specialist schools and city academies.
- About half went to fee-paying schools and the rest to state grammars and comprehensives.
Origin Early 17th century: from French compréhensif, -ive, from late Latin comprehensivus, from the verb comprehendere ‘grasp mentally’. |