Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a broad gauge. Used of a railroad track.
- adjective Informal Having a wide scope.
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Examples
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Empowering physicians who possess a generalist point of view and who have a broad-gauge perspective and the required common sense is the best, and I believe the only, way to right this ship.
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Ms. Bassett supplies a broad-gauge vaudeville turn, which is what the script calls for.
Here Comes Dr. King Terry Teachout 2011
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Russia has two trump cards in the transportation issue: Russia Railways owns 50% of Ulaan Bator Railways, whose 1,815-kilometer network within Mongolia accounts for 60% of the total freight transport, and Mongolian and Russian railway networks are easily connectible because they share a common broad-gauge design.
Erdenes: Mongolia Mine Contracts Aren't Final Gurdeep Singh 2011
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Empowering physicians who possess a generalist point of view and who have a broad-gauge perspective and the required common sense is the best, and I believe the only, way to right this ship.
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At one moment it's a broad-gauge farce that examines sex from a woman's point of view.
'Bridesmaids' Catches the Bouquet Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Such broad-gauge consensus views have always served as the basis for the American film industry, and for mass culture in general.
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We have a very broad-gauge dialogue with the government of Jordan on those issues.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1996
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He was an attorney, but a very broad-gauge man and a great father, and I just became thoroughly fascinated with not only the Constitution and it's formation, but the legislative procedure, and indeed, everything connected with government.
Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the Pentagon 1990
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And they tended not to be as broad-gauge as the young intellectuals who came on, and so there was a kind of natural
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The evidence is clear that the government still believes that with these broad-gauge tools the economy can be fine-tuned.
Does Government Economic Policy-Making Make a Difference? The Canadian Case 1973
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