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all-embracing

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Fromall +‎embracing.

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all-embracing (notcomparable)

  1. Having abroadscope; ofuniversalapplication.
    • 1945 September and October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, inRailway Magazine, page269:
      The trouble today is that few such causes of delay are taken up with the people concerned; "there is a war on" provides the usualall-embracing excuse.
    • 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, inTrains Illustrated, page714:
      [...] at each station the train times are not shown in oneall-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.

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