1. the scope of the influence or concerns of something; range of authority or responsibility
Usage: plural of purview
2. the range or limit of what someone can see or understand
Usage: plural of purview; formal

Examples

• The new regulations fall within the purviews of both agencies.
• These matters are outside our purviews.
• The committee’s purviews include budget oversight and policy review.
• Different departments have distinct purviews of responsibility.
• The judge ruled that such cases are within the court’s purviews.
• Environmental protection spans multiple governmental purviews.