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across-the-board

[uh-kraws-thuh-bawrd, -bohrd, uh-kros-]

adjective

  1. applying to all employees, members, groups, or categories; general.

    The across-the-board pay increase means a raise for all employees.

  2. (of a bet) covering all possibilities of winning on a given result, especially by placing a combination bet on one horse in a race for win, place, and show.



across-the-board

adjective

  1. (of salary increases, taxation cuts, etc) affecting all levels or classes equally

  2. horse racing the US term for each way

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of across-the-board1

First recorded in 1940–45
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Idioms and Phrases

Applying to all the individuals in a group, as in They promised us an across-the-board tax cut, that is, one applying to all taxpayers, regardless of income. This expression comes from horse racing, where it refers to a bet that covers all possible ways of winning money on a race: win (first), place (second), or show (third). The board here is the notice-board on which the races and betting odds are listed. Its figurative use dates from the mid-1900s.
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Mitchell supports an across-the-board minimum wage increase, rather than efforts to raise industry-specific wages.

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To some, this all amounts to an across-the-board war on elite higher education by the Trump administration in an effort to reshape universities in a more conservative-friendly image.

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Lawsuit accuses Trump’s reshaped National Science Foundation of imposing ideology and across-the-board cuts at a cost of scientific and economic advancement.

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That included a 10% across-the-board tariff on imports from every country, and even higher rates for dozens of countries, until they were temporarily suspended in early April.

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Yang said across-the-board tariffs would stifle his business, but even tariffs limited to China will hurt.

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