[
UK
/ˈæmbɪt/
]
NOUN
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an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
the ambit of municipal legislation
a piano has a greater range than the human voice
outside the reach of the law
within the compass of this article
in the political orbit of a world power
the range of a supersonic jet
within the scope of an investigation
How To Use ambit In A Sentence
- Our ambition is to build a prosperous, inclusive and outward-looking country. Times, Sunday Times
- The US had once looked upon Japanese ambitions with a level of sympathy, even indulgence.
- Golub was an odd man out, one of those who kept alive certain ambitions scuttled by the artists who followed Abstract Expressionism.
- It was a brave gamble, a bid for power, by an ambitious, clever and canny politician who saw his career facing a premature end.
- She even has ambitions to return to college and major in interior design and business.
- She has the ambition and talent to make something of herself.
- Of late, Wattal has been seriously looking outside the ambit of working with pop artists.
- Even among the veterans, there is no consensus: is it an economic area or something much greater with supra-national ambition? Times, Sunday Times
- It was a responsible situation he felt for a boy of thirteen, and he meant to do his very best to keep it now that he had been lucky enough to get it; in the far-off future, too, he saw himself no longer the van-boy, but in the proud position now occupied by Joshua as driver, and this he considered, though a lofty, was by no means an unreasonable ambition. Our Frank and other stories
- This could provide funds for each son and so fulfil one of his personal ambitions. Times, Sunday Times