across-the-board increase
collocation in Englishmeaningsofacross-the-boardandincrease
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across-the-board
adjective[before noun]
uk/əˌkrɒs.ðəˈbɔːd/us/əˌkrɑːs.ðəˈbɔːrd/
affecting everyone or everything within an organization, system, ...
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increase
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.kriːs/us/ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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This means that anacross-the-boardincreasein farm output prices of 10 per cent would cause the stock of biomass to fall about 1.3 per cent in the long run.
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On that basis, he is right merely to make anacross-the-boardincrease, raising the limits though not complicating the scheme still further.
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All that we are seeking to rule out is anyacross-the-boardincreaseaffecting butter, cereals, sugar and other main agricultural commodities.
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This means that the old approach—anacross-the-boardincrease, whether linked to prices or earnings—is inadequate.
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It is simply not true to say that this is anacross-the-boardincrease.
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For families with four children that is the difference between an annual increase in income of £54, £43 and £32, which is scarcely anacross-the-boardincreasefor everybody.
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That means that the old approach—anacross-the-boardincrease, whether linked to prices or earnings—is inadequate.
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As we understood the proposal, there would be anacross-the-boardincreaseof 20%, which would generate considerable additional costs here.
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Anacross-the-boardincreasedoes not help the poorest pensioners, because they lose any such increase pound for pound.
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We should consider anacross-the-boardincreasein benefits.
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More than 2 million pensioners do not even qualify for the full pension, so anacross-the-boardincreasewould do absolutely nothing to help them.
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If we had provided anacross-the-boardincrease, we would not have solved the problem of pensioner poverty.
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Anacross-the-boardincreasein the basic state pension would not begin to tackle the pensioner poverty that we inherited.
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Is she saying that there will be anacross-the-boardincreaseto that amount?
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We want to introduce the pension credit because a universal,across-the-boardincreasewould not do anything to address the pensioner inequality that we inherited.
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The alternative is to give people a universal,across-the-boardincrease.
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We propose anacross-the-boardincreasein the basic state pension of £5 above inflation, plus an extra £5 at age 75 and an extra £10 at 80.
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