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scope

/skəʊp/

B1CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
NeutralRegister

General noun

The range of subject matter that a piece of work addresses or deliberately excludes.

A detailed treatment of pricing lies beyond the scope of the present essay.

Similar: range, remit

Topic: Academic writing in General English

Business noun

The full set of work, features and deliverables that a project is agreed to produce.

Before we commit to a timeline, we need to agree the scope with the client in writing.

Similar: remit, boundaries

Topic: Project management in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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