scope of activity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofscopeandactivity
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scope
noun[U]
uk/skəʊp/us/skoʊp/
the range of a subject covered by a book, programme, discussion, ...
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activity
noun
uk/ækˈtɪv.ə.ti/us/ækˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
the situation in which a lot of things are happening or people are ...
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(Definition ofscopeandactivityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Within the ordinary banking sector, banks were further divided according to size andscopeofactivityinto city or large commercial banks, regional banks and second-tier regional banks.
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It is highly questionable whether we should bring external activities within thescopeofactivitycapable of being so defined.
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It seems to me that there are three: the first innovation is the broadening of thescopeofactivityof the group.
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Why does the board need to broaden itsscopeofactivityeven more?
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It becomes a group of individual officers on contract with a very restrictedscopeofactivity.
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However, we should not underestimate the ingenuity of financial criminals whosescopeofactivityis widened as international trade flourishes.
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I could have talked at great length on the energy and the vastscopeofactivitythat is provided there.
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It is a question of thescopeofactivitywhich they are to be afforded within the universities.
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In this way, we aim to extend thescopeofactivitywhich benefits from the effects of competition.
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All landowners who operate under model tenancy agreements should desire a full and healthyscopeofactivityin the countryside.
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It is not the slightest bit of use producing at a centre of production unless you can bring the article you have produced into thescopeofactivityand distribution.
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I imagine that he would regret their being broken up among the district councils because obviously theirscopeofactivitywould then be very much narrower.
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Ministers were held responsible for the actions of all their civil servants, sometimes several thousands of them, with an ever-wideningscopeofactivity.
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I have endeavoured to ascertain what reasonable grounds could be advanced against conceding to trade unions the largerscopeofactivitywhich this measure proposes to restore.
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Thescopeofactivityis wide: from space tourism to satellite navigation systems.
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He sought as he later put it a widerscopeofactivity, not only in gaining a livelihood but in the fields of art and education in the fullest sense.
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