Crossword clues for comprehensive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
comprehensive
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a complete/full/comprehensive list
▪ The full list of winners is on page seven.
a comprehensive assessment (=that includes all the necessary facts or details)
▪ Our clients receive a comprehensive assessment of their financial affairs.
a comprehensive range
▪ We offer a comprehensive range of services for the business traveller.
a comprehensive schoolBritish English (= a secondary school for all children)
a comprehensive/complete overview (=including all the details and important points)
▪ a comprehensive overview of the nuclear energy programme
a thorough/comprehensive review
▪ Their conclusion is based on a comprehensive review of all the previous studies.
comprehensive insurance (=car insurance that pays for damage whether it is caused by you or by someone else)
▪ The cost of comprehensive insurance is likely to drop.
comprehensive school
▪ Kylie goes to the local comprehensive.
full/comprehensive instructions (=very detailed)
▪ There are comprehensive instructions for completing and filing the new tax form.
▪ Full instructions accompany the smoke alarm.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ It is as comprehensive as is possible at the present time.
▪ Everyman wasn't as comprehensive and incisive as it might have been, but it was an intriguing, doleful documentary none the less.
▪ Obviously, it would be best to be as comprehensive as possible.
▪ This measure is referred to as comprehensive income.
▪ The Prime Minister's speech was as comprehensive as it was meticulous, and well reflected the balance of the motion.
▪ Since they are based on keywords they are only as comprehensive as the overall contents.
▪ For this reason the exchange of information is not as comprehensive as it might be.
fully
▪ A fully comprehensive stock including two bitters, three lagers, Guinness and cider on draught.
▪ Be sure your pre-flight planning is fully comprehensive.
▪ They said they could insure me fully comprehensive for £800.
▪ Our fully comprehensive service includes design, building work and installation.
▪ The book can not be fully comprehensive.
▪ For a fully comprehensive guide to moving, turn to the special section starting on page 35.
more
▪ The steep east bank may be descended, with care, for a more comprehensive view.
▪ They say they make more phone calls, schedule quicker appointments, do more comprehensive screenings and even make occasional house calls.
▪ In this way, the Government hoped to obtain a more comprehensive picture of total oil and gas potential.
▪ ISPs sell little general-interest information, but the communications services they sell are more comprehensive than those of online service providers.
▪ For readers seeking an even more comprehensive portrait, there is a thirty-three page bibliography.
▪ One small criticism is that the index could have been more comprehensive.
▪ The powers of the former are more comprehensive than of those of the latter.
▪ Actual news coverage in the press was nevertheless more comprehensive than that on the radio and television.
most
▪ It is the most comprehensive of the road test series and is also one of the first to feature colour pages.
▪ The most comprehensive method is the Convert program.
▪ The most comprehensive way of assessing the organization's marketing performance is by means of a marketing audit.
▪ Buy the one offering the clearest, most comprehensive answer.
▪ The poll, for the Press Association, is the largest and most comprehensive survey of the campaign.
▪ This is a most comprehensive work which lists the original owners of the lathes and their biography.
▪ One of the most comprehensive studies of the results of randomization trials that has been reported was due to Kaimann.
▪ Harrogate 89 was the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever, featuring more than 260 exhibitors from 14 countries.
very
▪ A very comprehensive manual, telephone help line and a full on-screen tutorial are all included in the price of the software.
▪ It has also produced very comprehensive guidelines about to appear in their third edition.
▪ Their 1991 brochure highlights the boats and the cruising area, and gives details of a very comprehensive inventory.
▪ The training is very comprehensive, with emphasis placed upon legal knowledge and the development of advocacy skills.
▪ A Weather Initiative forecast - very comprehensive, of course - comes a little more expensive: try £100.
▪ I received a very comprehensive report - I think some one wanted to put the old boy's mind at rest.
▪ A very comprehensive history which includes many anecdotes and reminiscences along with a multitude of facts and figures.
▪ I have decided that Rentokil should be given the contract on the basis outlined in your very comprehensive proposal document.
■ NOUN
account
▪ Your notes should provide a concise but comprehensive account of a given topic.
▪ It was left to Jürgen Habermas to establish a more comprehensive account of the basis of critical theory.
▪ One task he undertook was the preparation of a comprehensive account of current technology.
▪ The result is the single most comprehensive account of the early days at Dovercourt.
analysis
▪ Second, there may be various political reasons for including these areas in a comprehensive analysis for accounting purposes.
▪ One comprehensive analysis of lifetime earnings costs due to childrearing is a study by Heather Joshi.
▪ The Deputy Governor of Bullwood provided a comprehensive analysis of the system's ills before the Sub-Committee.
▪ Here we argue that a comprehensive analysis should broaden the scope of the analysis to include conservationists and governments.
▪ I do not claim that this book is in any way a final or even comprehensive analysis of its subject matter.
approach
▪ In fact, wholesale reconstruction on the lines advocated by Buchanan's comprehensive approach has not been followed.
▪ The East would prefer such a comprehensive approach from the community, rather than a series of bilateral arrangements.
▪ It is the loss of a comprehensive approach to citizenship that makes it appropriate to talk in terms of an emerging underclass.
▪ It had a pepper-pot effect that did not represent a comprehensive approach to urban regeneration.
assessment
▪ Your starting point will be a comprehensive assessment of the area's technical training needs.
▪ Hughes looks at comprehensive assessment of elderly people and their carers.
▪ Referrals Offering the right kind of help where it is needed requires a comprehensive assessment scheme.
▪ Only then will it be possible to reach a comprehensive assessment of Nizan's life and work.
▪ Carry out those activities involved when conducting the comprehensive assessment of a person's nursing requirements.
▪ In this care, observation of a trainee's performance would not alone ensure comprehensive assessment of competence.
▪ A specialist or comprehensive assessment can be arranged without having to have an initial assessment first.
business
▪ The hotel boasts comprehensive business centres and conference rooms.
collection
▪ The Library holds a comprehensive collection of the Department's reports to Regional Council committees.
▪ Much of the stock consists of books that might be found elsewhere - though rarely in such a comprehensive collection.
▪ One of the greatest comprehensive collections of the decorative arts, natural history, geology and technology in the United Kingdom.
▪ His tattoos were a fairly comprehensive collection of daggers, eagles, flags and guns.
coverage
▪ We are moving to more comprehensive coverage.
education
▪ Among Labour voters only 8 % are against the principle of comprehensive education.
▪ The example of comprehensive education is again interesting.
▪ I am extremely proud of the comprehensive education system.
▪ The commission favours comprehensive education, making it easier for children to transfer between groups.
guide
▪ Accommodation: The Bruges tourist office produces a comprehensive guide.
▪ Anthony Cowgill has produced the only comprehensive guide to the Maastricht Treaty.
▪ Look out for our comprehensive guide to protection equipment next summer.
▪ Our comprehensive Guide to Courses is published in mid July.
▪ This comprehensive guide has 3,000 full-colour photographs and includes more than 500 step-by-step sequences.
▪ The booklet endeavours to be a comprehensive guide both to individuals and governing bodies on all aspects of drugs and sport.
health
▪ The final document laid out a mandate for comprehensive health care for all women-the first ever.
▪ Such discoveries strengthened arguments for a comprehensive health service.
information
▪ Near also aims to provide comprehensive information about any attacks on academics and educational institutions around the world.
▪ In this view, decision makers lack the cognitive capacity and the comprehensive information that would enable them to calculate utilities rationally.
▪ The research has sought to gather comprehensive information on financial support to firms in the study area over the period 1974-84.
▪ Write or call now for a comprehensive information pack or to arrange a showhouse visit.
▪ In order to do this health authorities must have comprehensive information about the existing use of health care.
▪ They have a very comprehensive information sheet giving details of qualifications and training courses relevant to a career in outdoor pursuits.
insurance
▪ Fully comprehensive insurance, maintenance and servicing costs etc. are also not included.
▪ Drive defensively and have comprehensive insurance.
list
▪ What follows is not a comprehensive list - what other relevant questions can you identify?
▪ Quite a comprehensive list, but if you can't see what you want, contact us.
▪ Navigator's Search button takes you to a far more comprehensive list of search engines than IE4's equivalent.
▪ Contact the museum or watch local press for a comprehensive list of current exhibitions.
▪ A comprehensive list is also available from the Pre-Retirement Association.
▪ The Topic Criteria provide a comprehensive list of mathematical skills and processes.
▪ Each chapter begins with a brief introduction, and ends with a comprehensive list of references - typically in the hundreds.
▪ Insist that they send you a comprehensive list of all your direct debits and standing orders as soon as possible.
picture
▪ Informative, revealing, funny, they add up to a comprehensive picture of a momentous year.
▪ In this way, the Government hoped to obtain a more comprehensive picture of total oil and gas potential.
▪ Taken together these approaches provide a startlingly comprehensive picture for a plausible understanding of the socio-ecological origins of human life.
plan
▪ The main thing is that we have a comprehensive plan, now and for the future.
▪ After we get the right financial planner working for us, we can put a comprehensive plan together.
▪ The committee soon offered a comprehensive plan for redevelopment and conservation in all areas of the city.
▪ But should the area remain in the county under the current comprehensive plan, the population could grow to 155, 000.
policy
▪ At the moment few organizations have comprehensive policies or programs of team rewards in place.
programme
▪ The citizens charter is simply the most comprehensive programme ever launched by any Government anywhere to improve public services.
▪ A comprehensive programme of Villas and Cottages of comfort and tradition throughout 17 regions. 21.
▪ The Government have a comprehensive programme of action to promote equality of opportunity.
▪ The proposals include a comprehensive programme of security and protection for all those engaged in helping the less fortunate.
▪ The only answer to this is to develop a comprehensive programme of accounting standards and to enforce them vigorously.
range
▪ There is a comprehensive range of Mason Pearson brushes at various prices.
▪ Verio will also provide customers with a comprehensive range of productivity-enhancing managed services needed to run their online business effectively.
▪ A comprehensive range of manual records and files is maintained by the various personnel sections in the organisation.
▪ The Bain de Terre Spa Perming system includes a comprehensive range of style products.
▪ Its Rocko Vario interchangeable-blade system forms part of a comprehensive range.
▪ A comprehensive range of editing features is provided.
▪ We provide a comprehensive range of sizes to suit every yacht specification for leisure use or for the longest of passages.
report
▪ It only remained to write everything up in a comprehensive report.
▪ Apparently Neely Terry had not given Sister Hutchins a comprehensive report about his theology.
▪ At the end of the patrol I was to submit a comprehensive report of our findings.
▪ I received a very comprehensive report - I think some one wanted to put the old boy's mind at rest.
review
▪ A comprehensive review of quantitative cross-national studies of political violence.
▪ This is not excessive if all attachments are included and a comprehensive review of literature is included.
▪ A comprehensive review of the patient can be achieved through the use of the care plan.
▪ Each funded several different but related enquiries which together would provide a comprehensive review of contemporary child care.
▪ It would have been desirable to cover all the library sectors in one comprehensive review.
▪ A comprehensive review of contemporary school reorganization is beyond the scope of this paper.
▪ Again, this information was informative and served as a fairly comprehensive review of the work reported to date using these systems.
school
▪ She did best in the interview, the part of the application process which was said to disadvantage comprehensive school students.
▪ Wilson has been pushing for a comprehensive school test since he became governor in 1991.
▪ Sessions will take place both indoors at the centre and outdoors on the adjacent comprehensive school playing fields.
▪ Teachers in comprehensive schools can be as imaginative and as devoted as in any other kind of school.
▪ In Worcestershire, the education authority is committed to parity of excellence for all of its comprehensive schools.
▪ At first I tried to make a comparison between a large northern comprehensive school and a smaller London church school.
▪ Most pupils now attend what are termed comprehensive schools, schools whose enrollment criteria are geographic rather than academic.
service
▪ It provides a reasonably equitable and comprehensive service to the whole population at remarkably small cost.
▪ HMOs are a form of managed-care organizations that provide comprehensive service for a fixed prepayment.
▪ By comparison, the second market will be offered a cheaper price for a less comprehensive service.
▪ Our fully comprehensive service includes design, building work and installation.
▪ Based on this comprehensive service, which is designed to cover every aspect of customers' requirements.
▪ Dynamism provides a comprehensive service, offering unlimited free telephone based technical support, with a helpdesk in Chicago.
▪ In order to provide a comprehensive service we need a steady flow of information to us.
set
▪ The Report included indeed a comprehensive set of proposals for the prevention of child and adult ill-health.
strategy
▪ We report on all the differing views which will produce the only comprehensive strategy for the advance to socialism.
▪ These changes were seen as part of a comprehensive strategy to foster exchange rate cohesion.
▪ A far-reaching and comprehensive strategy, carefully integrated with broader plans for health care reform, is required.
▪ There are some infamous examples which illustrate the need for comprehensive strategies.
study
▪ It contained a comprehensive study of the causes, prevention and treatment of crime.
▪ But there never has been such a comprehensive study to test the theory.
▪ But a more comprehensive study by doctors from Oxford has produced no evidence to support this.
▪ In a comprehensive study, the Institute for International Economics answered yes to these questions.
▪ One of the most comprehensive studies of the results of randomization trials that has been reported was due to Kaimann.
▪ A comprehensive study done a few years ago focused on what particular quality was shared by winning race car drivers.
▪ Were you given a comprehensive study of song and dance?
▪ There has been no comprehensive study of this kind since the Gladstone Committee of 1895.
survey
▪ It contained a comprehensive survey of the world's countries and their populations and referred to earlier missionary endeavours.
▪ It is not the purpose of this chapter to provide a comprehensive survey of the empirical work undertaken upon this topic.
▪ The poll, for the Press Association, is the largest and most comprehensive survey of the campaign.
▪ Clearly one can not hope to give a comprehensive survey of the history of metals and metalworking in a single chapter.
▪ A comprehensive survey with this emphasis is very welcome.
▪ With the remainder, a full, comprehensive survey of painting in this country during the last four centuries should be created.
system
▪ The fourth school is situated on the edge of a large industrial city which operates a completely comprehensive system.
▪ The result will be a more coherent and comprehensive system by which to maintain standards in our awards.
▪ We will discuss here two different methods which have the advantage that they can be combined into a more comprehensive system.
▪ It is a comprehensive system - and still developing.
▪ The growing Cavity Wall Tie Service provides a comprehensive system of inspection and replacement of corroded wall ties.
▪ The important issue for reformers was the creation of a national, comprehensive system offering guidance, placement, and after-care.
▪ The comprehensive system itself remains subject to similar investigation.
▪ Simple: A comprehensive system does not have to be complicated.
view
▪ A total comprehensive view was now available complete with a repertoire of techniques for implementation.
▪ The steep east bank may be descended, with care, for a more comprehensive view.
▪ Together the two theses present a comprehensive view of the nature and role of legitimate authority.
▪ It was intended to provide a comprehensive view of public expenditure planning and control.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Jacobs is trying to make the university's policy clearer and more comprehensive.
▪ The bill called for comprehensive health insurance for all Americans.
▪ The factory was given a comprehensive safety inspection three months ago.
▪ This is the largest and most comprehensive study ever made of the city's public transportation system.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A total comprehensive view was now available complete with a repertoire of techniques for implementation.
▪ At the end of the patrol I was to submit a comprehensive report of our findings.
▪ Each funded several different but related enquiries which together would provide a comprehensive review of contemporary child care.
▪ In this view, decision makers lack the cognitive capacity and the comprehensive information that would enable them to calculate utilities rationally.
▪ Site supervision should be both systematic and comprehensive.
▪ The committee soon offered a comprehensive plan for redevelopment and conservation in all areas of the city.
▪ The result is a comprehensive and sensitive look at a life crisis for which few people are ever prepared.
▪ Your starting point will be a comprehensive assessment of the area's technical training needs.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Comprehensive
Comprehensive \Com`pre*hen"sive\, a. [Cf. F. compr['e]hensif.]
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Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.
A very comprehensive definition.
--Bentley.Large and comprehensive idea.
--Channing. Having the power to comprehend or understand many things. ``His comprehensive head.''
--Pope.-
(Zo["o]l.) Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.
Note: The term is applied chiefly to early fossil groups which have a combination of structures that appear in more fully developed or specialized forms in later groups. Synthetic, as used by Agassiz, is nearly synonymous.
Syn: Extensive; wide; large; full; compendious.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
comprehensive
"containing much," 1610s, from French comprehénsif, from Late Latin comprehensivus, from comprehens-, past participle stem of Latin comprehendere (see comprehend). Related: Comprehensively (mid-15c.); comprehensiveness.
Wiktionary
comprehensive
a. broadly or completely covering; include a large proportion of something. n. (context British English) A comprehensive school.
WordNet
comprehensive
adj. including all or everything; "comprehensive coverage"; "a comprehensive history of the revolution"; "a comprehensive survey"; "a comprehensive education" [ant: noncomprehensive]
broad in scope; "a comprehensive survey of world affairs"
being the most comprehensive of its class; "an unabridged dictionary"
Wikipedia
Comprehensive
Comprehensive may refer to:
- Comprehensive layout, the page layout of a proposed design as initially presented by the designer to a client
- Comprehensive school, a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude
- Comprehensive examination, an exam taken in some countries by graduates
Usage examples of "comprehensive".
It may not often be possible until men of science generally again take up the study of Plato and Aristotle, or at least busy themselves, as did Agassiz, with some comprehensive modern philosopher like Schelling.
In order to show the interesting features of the northern portions of many Australasian islands, and for the purposes of comparison with older and later maps, we give also a more comprehensive sketch map on our adopted projection.
He paused and bowed to the company, taking a quick comprehensive look, and his eye checking momentarily on Lady Cytherea as he did so.
The Internet, is, in effect, an encyclopaedia - far more detailed, far more authoritative, and far more comprehensive that any encyclopaedia can ever hope to be.
Klaus used the Quagmire notebooks to study for the comprehensive exams, and everything worked the way it should.
From all the information I have received, I am now satisfied that a very large and comprehensive plan of attack had been arranged by the party which is popularly known as the Sweeny-Roberts section of the Fenian Brotherhood.
The declining effectiveness of the Bretton Woods mechanisms and the decomposition of the monetary system of Fordism in the dominant countries made it clear that the reconstruction of an international system of capital would have to involve a comprehensive restructuring of economic relations and a paradigm shift in the definition of world command.
Each robot was linked to a larger network under the control of the computer evermind, a labyrinth of circuitry that functioned in unison, building the Synchronized Worlds to a larger, more comprehensive state of order and progress.
Miss Helvetia Appleyard awakened, did precisely what the tickled British maiden of to-day may be relied upon to do under corresponding circumstances: she first of all took swift and comprehensive survey of the male thing behind the feather.
It performs hematological, biochemical, and microbiological tests on any blood sample, and the computer software program linked to it generates a comprehensive report and profile.
To demonstrate her impeccable Jacobinism, Charlotte, in response to his request to name the plotters, recited a comprehensive list.
The classic Ebola face made the monkeys look as if they had seem something beyond comprehensive.
We condemned the Indian nuclear tests, reaffirmed our support for the Nuclear Nonproliferation and Comprehensive Test Ban treaties, and said we wanted a global treaty to stop the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons.
Deprived of this clear and comprehensive estimate, we are reduced to collect a few imperfect hints from such of the ancients as have accidentally turned aside from the splendid to the more useful parts of history.
The reforms of Sixtus are important rather for their comprehensive than for their drastic quality.