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across-the-board
[uh-kraws-thuh-bawrd, -bohrd, uh-kros-]
adjective
applying to all employees, members, groups, or categories; general.
The across-the-board pay increase means a raise for all employees.
(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
(of salary increases, taxation cuts, etc) affecting all levels or classes equally
horse racing the US term for each way
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of across-the-board1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
Mitchell supports an across-the-board minimum wage increase, rather than efforts to raise industry-specific wages.
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.
Lawsuit accuses Trump’s reshaped National Science Foundation of imposing ideology and across-the-board cuts at a cost of scientific and economic advancement.
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.
Yang said across-the-board tariffs would stifle his business, but even tariffs limited to China will hurt.
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