a sweeping statement

a sweeping statement
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Aren't you making a rather sweeping statement when you claim that private doctors use the same methods as calculating businessmen?


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  • sweeping — sweep|ing [ˈswi:pıŋ] adj 1.) affecting many things, or making an important difference to something sweeping changes/cuts/reforms etc ▪ They want to make sweeping changes to education policies. 2.) [only before noun] including a lot of information …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • sweeping — [[t]swi͟ːpɪŋ[/t]] 1) ADJ: ADJ n A sweeping curve is a long wide curve. ...the long sweeping curve of Rio s Guanabara Bay. 2) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n (disapproval) If someone makes a sweeping statement or generalization, they make a statement which… …   English dictionary

  • sweeping — adj. & n. adj. 1 wide in range or effect (sweeping changes). 2 taking no account of particular cases or exceptions (a sweeping statement). n. (in pl.) dirt etc. collected by sweeping. Derivatives: sweepingly adv. sweepingness n …   Useful english dictionary

  • sweeping — [ˈswiːpɪŋ] adj 1) a sweeping change or development has a major effect 2) a sweeping statement is too general to be true in every case 3) with a wide impressive curved shape …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • sweeping — ► ADJECTIVE 1) extending or performed in a long, continuous curve. 2) wide in range or effect. 3) (of a statement) too general. ► NOUN (sweepings) ▪ dirt or refuse collected by sweeping. DERIVATIVES sweepingly adve …   English terms dictionary

  • statement — noun 1 something that you say or write ADJECTIVE ▪ brief, short ▪ Saunder s lawyer made a brief statement to the press outside the court. ▪ bald, blunt, flat ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • statement — n. act of stating something stated 1) to issue, make a statement 2) to confirm a statement 3) to deny; refute; retract, withdraw a statement 4) a brief, short; clear; false; oral; rash; succinct; sweeping; terse; vague; written statement 5) a… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • sweeping — adj. Sweeping is used with these nouns: ↑arc, ↑assertion, ↑bill, ↑change, ↑curve, ↑generalization, ↑gesture, ↑indictment, ↑motion, ↑reform, ↑staircase, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

  • sweeping — adjective 1》 extending or performed in a long, continuous curve. 2》 wide in range or effect.     ↘(of a statement) taking no account of particular cases or exceptions; too general. noun (sweepings) dirt or refuse collected by sweeping.… …   English new terms dictionary

  • generality — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Universal reference Nouns 1. generality, generalization, abstraction, sweeping generalization or statement; universality, currency, broadness, collectivity; average; catholicity, catholicism; miscellany …   English dictionary for students

  • United States Declaration of Independence — Declaration of Independence redirects here. For the type of document generally, see Declaration of independence. For the painting, see Trumbull s Declaration of Independence. United States Declaration of Independence …   Wikipedia


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