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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
all-round
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an all-round education (=including a balance of lots of different subjects)
▪ The school offers a good all-round education.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A box, on the other hand, offers all-round protection.
▪ As to Levi being a better all-round player, let's go to our year-end statistics.
▪ DataEase scores because it combines good all-round capability with genuine ease of use.
▪ Even some respected well-known all-round big-fish anglers have yet to crack it.
▪ His first-half display was a masterclass of all-round back play.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
all-round

all-round \all-round\ adj. prenom. 1. many-sided. an all-round athlete

Syn: all-around(prenominal), well-rounded

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
all-round

1728, from all + round (adj.). All-rounder is from 1855 as a type of men's collar; 1875 as a person who is good at everything.

Wiktionary
all-round

a. 1 having a wide scope 2 having many skills etc

WordNet
all-round

adj. many-sided; "an all-around athlete"; "a well-rounded curriculum" [syn: all-around(a), all-round(a), well-rounded]

Usage examples of "all-round".

She is a good, all-round sportswoman, is the pretty girl in the picture.

But an all-round sportswoman with a degree from Oxford and a budding career in politics makes a timid primary school teacher look and feel drab by comparison.

I am what you call your genuine all-round carnie, born and bred, taught and trained, guaranteed not to rust, bust, corrode, or explode.

Between trainers and jockeys there seemed to be an all-round edginess, sudden outbursts of rancor, and an ebbing and flowing undercurrent of resentment and distrust.

This indicates a splendid all-round competency in theft, for it starts with farthings, and works its industries all the way up to ship-loads.

Old Mother Blackcap was a pig-borer, cow-shouter and all-round veterinary witch.

But everyone agreed that the assassins' school offered the best all-round education in the world.

We had had a sail - a good all-round exciting, interesting sail - and now we thought we would have a row, just for a change like.

I know a good many people whose general hatefulness, contrariety and all-round objectionableness may well be the result of a sneeze during which the blessing was forgotten.

He rested a while to catch his breath and ease his cramped muscles then returned to the attack, straining backwards and forwards to produce an all-round widening of the post hole.

And that when he was simply seeking an all-round nervous stimulant to bring languid people up to the stresses of these pushful days.

All-round romantic hero, come to save us worthless pussy-whipped peons.

Mr Hartley was dead-set against changing the town's name to one suggested by a man who had proved to be a thief, fornicator, false prophet, and all-round snake in the grass.