MEANING
The area of responsibility, interest, or activity within a particular role or discussion.
Use it for
limiting what an inquiry considers; identifying which institution has responsibility; placing a question outside an argument’s scopeMarks a boundary of responsibility or inquiry without claiming that matters outside it are unimportant. Academic functions: Significance / Scope, Theory / Conceptual Language.
Words that belong together
- within the purview of
- outside the purview of
- the purview of the inquiry
On the page
The committee examined funding decisions but placed curriculum design outside its purview.
Whether the intervention was ethical falls within the purview of this analysis, even if its costs do not.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- purview
Usage notes
Usually uncountable: within, outside, or beyond the purview of an institution, inquiry, or role. No routine plural is needed. Register: formal. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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