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root and branch

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root and branch

  (formal)

if something is changed or removed root and branch, it is changed or removed completely because it is bad Racism must be eliminated, root and branch. (formal)

See also: and, branch, root

root and branch

Utterly, completely, as in The company has been transformed root and branch by the new management. Alluding to both the underground and aboveground parts of a tree, this idiom was first recorded in 1640.

See also: and, branch, root

root and branch

Utterly; completely: The organization has been transformed root and branch by its new leaders.

See also: and, branch, root