Topic: EDUCATION
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com‧pre‧hen‧sive W3
1 including all the necessary facts, details, or problems that need to be dealt with [= thorough]: We offer our customers a comprehensive range of financial products. The following guidelines do not aim to be totally comprehensive.
We offer our customers a comprehensive range of financial products.The following guidelines do not aim to be totally comprehensive. comprehensive review/study/survey/account etc a thorough and comprehensive review of the case a comprehensive study of alcoholism
! Do not confuse with comprehensible (=possible to understand) or understanding (=sympathetic about people's problems): His report was barely comprehensible. | My parents are very understanding.a thorough and comprehensive review of the casea comprehensive study of alcoholism2 car insurance that pays for damage whether it is caused by you or someone else
comprehensive insurance/cover/policy
3 a system of education in Britain in which children of different abilities go to the same school and are taught together
comprehensive education/system
SES —comprehensively adverb: No system has failed as comprehensively as the prison system.
No system has failed as comprehensively as the prison system. —comprehensiveness noun [uncountable]
