overview

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A broad, comprehensive view; a survey.
A summary or review.

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Meaning #1: a general summary of a subject

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An overview in policy debate is part of a speech which is flagged as not responding to the line-by-line arguments on the flow. An overview may be "global" if presented at the beginning of a speech or "local" if presented at the beginning of a position.

Debaters will usually inform the judge where they will be giving an overview before they start a speech because it can make it harder to flow the speech. A small minority of judges dislike this practice and will start speech time when a debater starts giving this order.

Many judges dislike overviews because, since many are scripted before the round begins, they tend to be non-responsive or repetitive and are often long. However, most judges and coaches support the practice for arguments which cannot be placed anywhere on the line-by-line or that need to be flagged for their importance.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - oversigt
v. tr. - holde opsyn med

Nederlands (Dutch)
overzicht, samenvatting

Français (French)
n. - vue d'ensemble
v. tr. - avoir/prendre une vue d'ensemble

Deutsch (German)
n. - Überblick, Übersicht
v. - überblicken, übersehen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γενική άποψη, επισκόπηση

Italiano (Italian)
compendio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - visão geral, visão global

Русский (Russian)
обзор

Español (Spanish)
n. - resumen, visión general
v. tr. - echar un vistazo general

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - översikt

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
概观, 综述, 概要, 写概要

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 概觀, 綜述, 概要
v. tr. - 寫概要

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 개요, 개략
v. tr. - 요약하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 概観, 大要

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) خلاصه, مجمل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סקירה כללית‬
v. tr. - ‮מסר סקירה כללית‬

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