crosscutting.

Affecting or connecting several groups, categories, or areas at once.

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Words that belong together

• crosscutting issue
• crosscutting concern

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Water security emerged as a crosscutting concern in every workshop.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common.