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purview

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++pur·view /ˈpɜːvjuː $ ˈpɜːr-/ noun  within/outside the purview of somebody/something formalLIMIT within or outside the limits of someone’s job, activity, or knowledge 在某人/某物的范围[权限]之内/之外 This matter comes within the purview of the Department of Health. 这件事属于卫生部的管辖范围。
Examples from the Corpus
purviewAnd no Department will prepare a brief for its Minister on anything outside the departmental purview.Fertility was not the issue; the movement of the whole cosmos was in purview.The draft may help win the war, such an eventuality is outside my purview.Those authors who operate independently of Palace purview soon discover that doors are quickly locked, bolted and barred to inquiry.Financial decisions about health plans or capital investments or raises are all properly the purview of the entrepreneur.Salary negotiations are normally not within the purview of the president.Or is that kind of worrying the purview only of adults?
Origin purview (1400-1500) Anglo-French purveu est it is provided (first words of a law)
pur·view nounChineseSyllable
outside activity, Corpus of limits someone’s or within job, the


purview
purview /ˈpɜːvjuː $ ˈpɜːr-/ noun
 Date: 1400-1500
 Language: Anglo-French
 Origin: purveu est __it is provided__ (first words of a law)
within/outside the purview of somebody/something formal within or outside the limits of someone’s job, activity, or knowledge:
    This matter comes within the purview of the Department of Health.


pur·viewBrE /ˈpɜːvjuː/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpɜːrvjuː/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] within/outside the purview of sth(formal) within/outside the limits of what a person, an organization, etc. is responsible for; dealt/not dealt with by a document, law, etc. 在(个人或组织等的)权限之内/之外;在(文件、法律等的)范围内/外