The word 'overarch' is a correct and usable English word.
Generally, it is used as a verb meaning to form an overarching structure or concept. For example, "The overarching goal of the project was to create a successful online marketplace."
They reach up into the boughs of the trees that overarch them and sweep their shadows away downstream.
But he doesn't seem nearly old enough to be the 50ish has-been the play calls for, and he has been encouraged to underline every reaction and overarch every eyebrow.
The immanence of guilt and the fallibility of mankind overarch the knotted racial relations of South Africa in the provocative, mysterious thriller "Quarry".
Assembly members in swing districts, who should always be looking for issues that overarch party divisions, should also speak out -- including Jonathan Bing of Manhattan and Adam Bradley of White Plains.
Radical, far-reaching work produced by his policy review was ready to be taken up, he now says, but was left to gather dust by those around Miliband, who opted instead for their minimalist, safety-first offer, and a few "free money bribes" such as the energy price freeze, which failed to add up to a convincing, overarching national story.
There are lots of things that are important and that I love about Eyewitness but the overarching rule is to have lots of detail, and lots to look at, and to be able to exhibit some of my images on an even larger scale is a great opportunity".
But the main thing that Blair is doing, I believe, is trying to establish a big overarching argument.
Corporate universities have two distinguishing features: the first is a dedicated facility, whether built of bricks or housed online; the second is a curriculum tailored to the company's overarching strategy.This latter trait gives the best clue as to why they have become so popular.
All MBA students must now study two of three "overarching megatrends that will change the world".
Yet absent, still, from Mr Kerry's economic thinking is any sense of an overarching, unifying theme.
But it insists there is no overarching failing of management or corporate culture.In this section Setting up shop in India Hot on the press Beyond coincidence Big deal?
