The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SCOPE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result SCOPE
- Son to manage range
- Examine carefully capacity for action
- Field needing seconds to get through
- Room with a view?
- Room in church housing work on Sumerian leader
- Reach safety primarily, and survive
- Flipping ages cancelling hotel room
- Sweep of eras looking back, hard to avoid
- Manage to follow shop’s principal range
- Room that gives a better view?
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What does SCOPE mean?
SCOPE noun- The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
- A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom.
- The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
- The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
- The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
- A periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.
- Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
- To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
- To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
- To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
- To examine under a microscope.
- To observe a bird using a spotting scope.
- A bundle, as of twigs.