broad outline

collocation in English

meaningsofbroadandoutline

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broad
adjective
uk
/brɔːd/
us
/brɑːd/
very ...
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outline
noun[C]
uk
/ˈaʊt.laɪn/
us
/ˈaʊt.laɪn/
the main shape or edge of something, without ...
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(Definition ofbroadandoutlinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbroad outline

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Each of these events and reports is described inbroadoutlinebelow.
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Thebroadoutlineis uncontentious.
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Those are the proposals inbroadoutline.
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That is the scheme inbroadoutline.
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Take abroadoutlineof the facts.
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What is the position inbroadoutline?
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There is the picture inbroadoutline.
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Those are only thebroadoutline.
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Does he agree with thebroadoutline?
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That is thebroadoutlineof it.
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However, within thatbroadoutlineare very different approaches, which put equally different emphases on genetic descent.
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Therefore, the results of the 2002 experiments confirmed inbroadoutlinethe preliminary model developed from the 1994 data.
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Suffice it for me to deal with thebroadoutline.
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Inbroadoutline, that proposal would be relevant to-day.
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That is thebroadoutlineof the scheme.
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I have given only abroadoutlineof the scheme.
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That is thebroadoutlineof the problem.
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I entirely agree with them in theirbroadoutline.
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That was thebroadoutlineof the plan we suggested.
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Such then, inbroadoutline, is the scheme.
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It is abroadoutline, a sort of skeleton.
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We must try to give abroadoutline.
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That is thebroadoutlineof the arrangement.
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They already knew a good deal of thebroadoutline.
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Therefore, that is abroadoutlineof the plus side.
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