wide-ranging discussion

collocation in English

meaningsofwide-ranginganddiscussion

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wide-ranging
adjective
uk
/ˌwaɪdˈreɪn.dʒɪŋ/
us
/ˌwaɪdˈreɪn.dʒɪŋ/
covering ...
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discussion
noun[C or U]
uk
/dɪˈskʌʃ.ən/
us
/dɪˈskʌʃ.ən/
the activity in which people talk about something and tell each other their ideas ...
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The final chapter provides an effectivewide-rangingdiscussionof groundwater resource and environmental management issues culminating with the looming threat of climate change.
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What follows is a thorough andwide-rangingdiscussionwhich encompasses almost every aspect of gender issues as they should have $!
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Thiswide-rangingdiscussionof individual social intuition is an important counterweight to sociological functionalism.
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By including informed contributions from experts in a diverse range of fields, including health, oceanography and tropical agriculture, awide-rangingdiscussionis presented.
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The book opens with awide-rangingdiscussionof democratic theory from classic antiquity to the present.
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It contains a great deal of thoughtful andwide-rangingdiscussionof important topics.
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The author provides awide-rangingdiscussionof the implications of population ageing for socioeconomic development programmes, health care, savings, investments, consumption patterns, work-force participation, migration and social security.
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We had awide-rangingdiscussionabout industrial relations, with particular reference to the motor industry.
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We had awide-rangingdiscussionon ways in which venture capital investment in smaller businesses might be further encouraged, particularly in areas outside the south-east.
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They provide an opportunity to have awide-rangingdiscussionof topical subjects.
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I do not intend to allow anotherwide-rangingdiscussion.
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There must be furtherwide-rangingdiscussionwith regard to the position of virtual operators.
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There is room forwide-rangingdiscussionon the factors that led to the proposal to exclude technical solutions from criminal protection.
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It was awide-rangingdiscussionover all the education issues concerning us today.
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There was awide-rangingdiscussionof amendments that were not as closely related as was at first thought.
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We could then have had awide-rangingdiscussionabout the various choices of reactor.
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This was an opportunity for awide-rangingdiscussionon human rights and democracy.
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There has grown up the practice of a verywide-rangingdiscussion.
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At that stage there will be an obvious opportunity for a serious andwide-rangingdiscussion.
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Our object is to have awide-rangingdiscussionover the whole area of civil science.
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