across the board

Definitions

Applying to all members, categories, or areas within a group or system.

Involving or affecting everyone or everything equally.

Examples

The company announced a pay raise for employees across the board.

The new safety regulations were implemented across the board to ensure consistency in all departments.

Synonyms

universally without exception in every instance wholesale comprehensive all-encompassing

Antonyms

selectively partially in specific cases limited piecemeal sporadically in isolated instances