Another word for purview | Synonyms for purview

Another word for purview

noun

An area within which something or someone exists, acts, or has influence or power:
ambit, compass, extension, extent, orbit, range, reach, realm, scope, sphere, sweep, swing. See territory
The extent of one's perception, understanding, knowledge, or vision:
horizon, ken, range, reach, scope. See ability, knowledge, see

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If the cemetery is private or part of a church, the records may be under the purview of a caretaker or in the church records.
More serious cases come within the purview of the an-sat, a judicial auxiliary of the governor.
What happened was outside of Gabe's official purview.
The island is treated as an outlying territory; it has not been brought within the full purview of the Japanese constitution.
4 Taking his labours as a whole, there cannot be a doubt that he enormously enlarged the purview of naturalists, and, even if limited to birds, that, on the completion of his work upon them in 1783, ornithology stood in a very different position from that which it had before occupied.

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