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noun

ˈbȯrd How to pronounce board (audio)
Definition of boardnext
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as in organization
a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest a proposal that is likely to meet with strong opposition from the local board of undertakers

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as in table
a leg-mounted piece of furniture with a broad flat top designed for the serving of food in preparation for the governor's visit, the taverner arranged an array of fancy dishes and silverware on the inn's finest board

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verb

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as in to feed
to provide food or meals for housed and boarded many foster children over the years

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as in to house
to provide with living quarters or shelter boarded the stray cat until a permanent home could be found

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Recent Examples of board
Noun
The Paley Center for Media is adding some boldface names to its board of trustees. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026 Khan is also part of Mamdani’s administration, serving as board chair of the city’s Economic Development Board. — Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Verb
The Arc’teryx boutique on Corso Garibaldi was the most widely impacted and was boarded up with plywood panels to prevent break-ins on Monday. — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026 Film Mode Entertainment has boarded worldwide sales on Tokyo Blitz and will be showing a first look to buyers at next month’s American Film Market. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for board
Recent Examples of Synonyms for board
  1. organization
  2. table
  3. feed
  4. house
  5. association
  6. provision
  7. room
  8. institute
Noun
  • The organization built a political presence in Texas with lobbying and legislative testimony as the state pushed back on transgender ideology in recent years.
    — Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Databricks helps organizations collect, process, and analyze large amounts of data and has been used by companies, such as Al-Futtaim Group, to help optimize its supply chain and develop a customer loyalty program.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of organization
Noun
  • Once again, if Tesla were bringing already big and fast-rising profits to the table, the task wouldn’t be nearly as difficult.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Military force may alter the balance of pain without resolving the disputes each side will eventually have to confront across the negotiating table.
    — Ali Vaez, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of table
Verb
  • Ocean iron fertilization grew from the idea that iron-rich dust blown across the oceans during past ice ages fed blooms of phytoplankton, helping to lower atmospheric CO₂.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • In Denmark, Microsoft agreed to feed waste heat from a data center into a local district heating network, with the companies involved saying the project could cover the annual heating needs of approximately 6,000 households.
    — Zev Laine, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of feed
Verb
  • Zygielbaum was surprised however that the DOJ reached out only to him, and not the Republican clerk in neighboring Weld County, which also houses a sizable portion of that same congressional district.
    — Miles Parks, NPR, 22 Oct. 2026
  • By 2018, the F50 had reportedly been acquired by Chinese billionaire and Instagram influencer Shin Mike Yin, who houses his collection of rare exotics—including a few examples from Pagani and Bugatti—in Dusseldorf, Germany.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of house
Noun
  • The association remained after accounting for whether patients completed radiation on time, suggesting that on-time completion may not fully explain the difference.
    — Marci Lee Nilsen, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Mike Elliott, senior director of Banner Sports Medicine High Performance Center, told Banner Health that most of the available research is observational and shows association rather than direct cause.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of association
Verb
  • The question no longer would be simply what provisions a union can persuade a school to accept, but what provisions an outside arbitration panel could compel it to accept.
    — Mailee Smith, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • An essential state role, parallel to provisioning basic services like education and healthcare, is endowing a wide open aesthetic field of form and meaning and collective sensibility.
    — Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of provision
Verb
  • The Terrace rooms on the ground floor have a private terrace, as the name suggests, but no plunge pool.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Room to room, lighting ranges from Jasper Morrison floor lamps to a Fortuny pendant, while antique vessels by Christofle, Tiffany Studios, and Joseff Hoffman mingle with King’s own designs for Zara Home or Audo Copenhagen.
    — Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 16 Oct. 2026
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  • Iran appears to be targeting vessels conducting ship-to-ship oil transfers around the Strait of Hormuz, according to a military institute.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The mysterious death of a lab worker at a plague research institute in Siberia drew global attention to a region where disease risks run as deep as the permafrost.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2026
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“Board.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/board. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

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