scope
verb/skəʊp/
/skəʊp/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they scope | /skəʊp/ /skəʊp/ |
| he / she / it scopes | /skəʊps/ /skəʊps/ |
| past simple scoped | /skəʊpt/ /skəʊpt/ |
| past participle scoped | /skəʊpt/ /skəʊpt/ |
| -ing form scoping | /ˈskəʊpɪŋ/ /ˈskəʊpɪŋ/ |
- scope something (informal) to look at or examine something carefully and completely
- His eyes scoped the room, trying to spot her in the crowd.
- to examine something carefully before you start work on it so that you know the size of the task
- scope something The information helped us scope the project.
- scope something out They had already scoped out project needs and costs.
Word Originverb early 17th cent. from modern Latin -scopium, from Greek skopein ‘look at’. The verb dates from the 1970s.
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