all-embracing en · ADJ
Etymology
From all + embracing.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having a broad scope; of universal application.
The trouble today is that few such causes of delay are taken up with the people concerned; "there is a war on" provides the usual all-embracing excuse.
1945 September and October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 269:[...] at each station the train times are not shown in one all-embracing chronological list, but in two separate sheets, one with a conspicuous band of yellow detailing westbound departures and the other with a similar band of blue the eastbound trains.
1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:Another new station was planned—a bigger, vaster, all-embracing station, one that would last for all time.
1958 September 14, C. Alan Cook, “Johannesburg's Fourth Station”, in Railway Magazine, pages 640-641:
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Translations (9)
de allumfassend (adjective) · he חוֹבֵק כֹּל (adjective) · es omniabarcante (adjective) · es omniabracante (adjective) · uk всеохо́плюючий (adjective) · es omniabracador (adjective) · es omniabarcador (adjective) · uk всеося́жний (adjective) · fi kaikenkattava (adjective)