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root-and-branch
adjective
- on a large scale or without discrimination; wholesale
root-and-branch reforms
adverb
- entirely; completely; utterly
Brazil needs reform root and branch
Idioms and Phrases
Utterly, completely, as in The company has been transformed root and branch by the new management . Alluding to both the underground and aboveground parts of a tree, this idiom was first recorded in 1640.Example Sentences
“The sooner universal injunctions are eliminated root and branch, the better.”
He believes the regulatory system needs a "root and branch review".
Mr Malkinson is now calling for a "root and branch" reform of the CCRC.
Tory shadow finance minister Peter Fox also called for a "root and branch review so that taxpayers' money is well-spent and efficiently allocated".
Not at his attempts to wreak personal vengeance, reconstitute Washington root and branch, or engineer a lasting partisan realignment.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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