- the opportunity or ability to do or achieve something synonym potential
- scope for something There's still plenty of scope for improvement.
- Her job offers very little scope for promotion.
- scope (for somebody) (to do something) The extra money will give us the scope to improve our facilities.
- within somebody's scope First try to do something that is within your scope.
Extra Examples- There is limited scope for creativity in my job.
- These courses give students more scope for developing their own ideas.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- ample
- considerable
- …
- have
- allow (somebody)
- give somebody
- …
- scope for
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- the range of things that a subject, an organization, an activity, etc. deals with
- The police are broadening the scope of their investigation.
- in scope Our powers are limited in scope.
- beyond the scope of something This subject lies beyond the scope of our investigation.
- outside the scope of something These issues were outside the scope of the article.
Extra Examples- This is a novel of epic scope and grand passions.
- These disputes fall within the scope of the local courts.
- These criteria were used to determine the scope of the curriculum.
- The survey is too limited in (its) scope.
- The sheer scope of the project was impressive.
- The scope of the exhibition is disappointingly narrow.
- The geographical scope of product markets has widened since the war.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- broad
- wide
- epic
- …
- broaden
- enlarge
- expand
- …
- broaden
- expand
- extend
- …
- beyond the scope of
- outside the scope of
- in (something’s) scope
- …
- -scope(in nouns) an instrument for looking through or watching something with
- microscope
- telescope
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 2 mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘target for shooting at’): from Italian scopo ‘aim’, from Greek skopos ‘target’, from skeptesthai ‘look out’. noun sense 3 early 17th cent. from modern Latin -scopium, from Greek skopein ‘look at’. The verb dates from the 1970s.
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