noun
[ pl. ] the limits that are set on what an official committee or report has been asked to do :
The matter, they decided, lay outside the commission's terms of reference.
noun
[ pl. ] the limits that are set on what an official committee or report has been asked to do :
The matter, they decided, lay outside the commission's terms of reference.
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005