thoroughgoing
pronunciation
How to pronounce thoroughgoing in British English:
UK [ˌθʌrəˈgəʊɪŋ]
How to pronounce thoroughgoing in American English:
US [ˌθɜroʊˈgoʊɪŋ]
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- Adjective:
- very thorough; exhaustively complete
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
Word Origin
- thoroughgoing (adj.)
- 1800, from thorough + going.
Example
- 1. A deepwater drilling moratorium is in place and a thoroughgoing review of the regulatory regime is under way .
- 2. A more thoroughgoing approach would be to make it harder for him to set up an account of his own .
- 3. To the person who scorns social utility or admires coercion , our analysis might furnish powerful arguments for a policy of thoroughgoing statism .
- 4. More generally , it recognised that the state needed to be radically trimmed and set about a thoroughgoing reform of education , welfare , policing , pensions and much more besides .
- 5. Despite rothbard 's continued productivity during his time in institutional exile , the thoroughgoing revolution in the property infrastructure of austrian economics now forestalled the products of his creative genius from reaching and molding the young minds of a new generation of graduate students .