purview

within/outside the purview of somebody/something formalLIMIT within or outside the limits of someone’s job, activity, or knowledge 在某人/某物的范围[权限]之内/之外

This matter comes within the purview of the Department of Health.

这件事属于卫生部的管辖范围。

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within/outside the purview of somebody/something• Mr. Davis felt constrained to accept that such a case might be within the purview of the legislation.• S.U. was to be encouraged, eliminating chains of assessment and decision making which had lain within the purview of the superintendent.• Salary negotiations are normally not within the purview of the president.

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purview• And no Department will prepare a brief for its Minister on anything outside the departmental purview.• Fertility was not the issue; the movement of the whole cosmos was in purview.• The draft may help win the war, such an eventuality is outside my purview.• Those authors who operate independently of Palace purview soon discover that doors are quickly locked, bolted and barred to inquiry.• Financial decisions about health plans or capital investments or raises are all properly the purview of the entrepreneur.• Salary negotiations are normally not within the purview of the president.• Or is that kind of worrying the purview only of adults?

Origin purview

(1400-1500) Anglo-French purveu est “it is provided” (first words of a law)

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