umbrella
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- noun
- /ʌmˈbrɛlə/
- Reform progresses best when an umbrella of support at the top facilitates change at lower levels.
- an umbrella organization
- an umbrella term
- an umbrella group
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Watch on YouTubeSo in that sense, it's a very big umbrella for a spiritual path.
- So in that sense, it's a very big umbrella for a spiritual path.
- Why hasn't that data been brought into this new umbrella called the AOIMSG?
- We often use these big umbrellas to talk about what we're feeling.
- How can we make more of these umbrella organizations and wrap us under it?
- It's kind of like a big, big umbrella term.
- These are all symptoms that fall under the umbrella of hurt.
- Let's do solo songs, let's do FGL songs and be under the same umbrella and nothing changes.
- So they each have an umbrella program for their sets of projects.
- AKANSDRNSDR is sort of an umbrella term for a variety of different practices.
- They're just adopting these umbrella sort of beliefs.
- What about the ideas of some what big umbrella term of symbolic AI?
- Like give me a, like an umbrella of things about your body.
Examples
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These are all symptoms that fall under the umbrella of hurt.
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The committee considered which umbrella term would best encompass the language problems of interest.
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And they all fall under the general umbrella of fine structure.
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It's kind of like a big, big umbrella term.
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So in that sense, it's a very big umbrella for a spiritual path.
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Yes, we use the umbrella term stress.
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And in mid-March, the major independent organizations formed a loose umbrella federation to coordinate their activities.
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Both tendencies are present in the phenomena now covered by the umbrella term postmodernism.
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The haze could be dealt with, however, under the umbrella of broader initiatives for international cooperation.
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The environmental organization provides an umbrella for various local groups focused on sustainability.
Synonyms
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A general word used to include many different things, groups, or ideas
Compounds
- Specialized
A small upright tree with large leaves that form rolled groups at the branch tips
A tall evergreen tree from Japan with needle-like leaves in umbrella-like groups at twig tips
A perennial plant with large umbrella-like leaves and white to pink flower clusters near streams
A perennial that blooms late with flat-topped clusters of small white flowers on rocky slopes
- South African
An African water plant with a circular fan of thin grass-like leaves used in ponds
- South African
A water plant from Africa with a top group of thin leaves that spread like an umbrella
- Philippine
A tropical plant with large leaves, a dark red flower-like part, and edible underground stems
A small tree with large leaves at the ends of its branches and creamy white flowers
- Australian
An evergreen plant often grown indoors with leaves that spread like an umbrella
A small tree that loses its leaves in autumn with large leaves like umbrellas and white spring flowers
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Etymology
Umbrella comes from the Latin umbra, meaning 'shadow', and people began using it as a picture for something that 'covers' many things. So an umbrella group is one organization that gives 'cover' to several smaller ones.