SCOPING | English Meaning, Definition, and Pronunciation

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Word: Scope

Speech Type: Verb

Etymology:

mid 16th century (in the sense ‘target for shooting at’): from Italian scopo ‘aim’, from Greek skopos ‘target’, from skeptesthai ‘look out’. scope (sense 3 of the noun) is derived from -scope

Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling: skəʊp
Dialects: British English
Definition:

assess or investigate something

Short Definition:

assess or investigate something

Examples:
  • they'd scoped out their market
Definition:

look at carefully; scan

Short Definition:

look at carefully

Examples:
  • they watched him scoping the room, looking for Michael

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