See Also: permillage(dictionary)

comprehensive (oh) and permillage (iou)


comprehensive (oh)



including all the necessary facts, details, or problems that need to be dealt with
-synonym thorough thorough
::We offer our customers a comprehensive range of financial products.
::a comprehensive guide to British hotels and restaurants
::The following guidelines do not aim to be totally comprehensive.
comprehensive review/study/survey/account etc
::a thorough and comprehensive review of the case
::a comprehensive study of alcoholism
comprehensive insurance/cover/policy
car insurance that pays for damage whether it is caused by you or someone else
comprehensive Education/system
a system of Education in Britain in which children of different abilities go to the same school and are taught together
-- comprehensively adv
::No system has failed as comprehensively as the prison system.
-- comprehensiveness n [U]
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HINT sense 1
Do not confuse with comprehensible (=possible to understand) or understanding (=sympathetic about people's problems): His report was barely comprehensible. | My parents are very understanding.

permillage (iou)



permillage noun. L19.
[from PER + French or Latin mille thousand + -AGE, after PERCENTAGE. Cf. PER MIL.]
Rate per thousand; an amount reckoned as so much in the thousand.