broad-based vs sweeping

broad-based

adj
  • Broadly based, wide-ranging. 

  • Of a tax: applying to most or all taxpayers or transactions, rather than a targeted subset. 

sweeping

adj
  • Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things. 

  • Completely overwhelming. 

noun
  • The activity of sweeping. 

  • An instance of sweeping. 

How often have the words broad-based and sweeping occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )