boarding

verb

present participle of board
1
as in feeding
to provide food or meals for housed and boarded many foster children over the years

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2
as in housing
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 boarding Investigators found a video showing a customer boarding a plane in Havana bound for Fort Lauderdale, along with messages celebrating arrivals on the Cancun-Fort Lauderdale route and photographs of passports and airline tickets. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026 For Harry, a typical workday involves boarding the subway and identifying the easy targets. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 Oct. 2026 According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Waymo robotaxis repeatedly passed stopped school buses in Austin, Texas, during the 2025–26 school year, while their stop signs were extended and students were boarding or exiting. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Oct. 2026 Bellisario, after boarding Lionsgate in 2014, has overseen TV casting, including for hit series like The Hunting Wives, The Studio, Ghosts, Acapulco and Love and Death. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2026 In an area of the Mojave Desert, cargo thefts are a pervasive problem, with thieves boarding slow-moving freight trains to steal high-value merchandise, sometimes slashing an air brake hose to bring the railcars to an emergency stop. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026 Near the Saint-Lazare train station Saturday, Akram Ahmed, a 34-year-old contractor, was boarding up an optician’s shop. — ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026 Near the Saint-Lazare train station Saturday, Akram Ahmed, a contractor, was boarding up an optician’s shop. — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2026 Cinépolis aims to increase its slate of Mexican pics to 12 a year, boarding some at their development phase. — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarding
  1. feeding
  2. housing
  3. catering
  4. lodging
  5. accommodating
  6. sheltering
  7. rooming
  8. camping
Verb
  • Euro zone shows 'unexpected resilience' The European Central Bank voted to hold interest rates steady on Thursday, saying a shock from higher energy prices was not yet feeding into second-round effects in the wider economy.
    — Jenni Reid, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Did the band’s combustibility — and the very different personalities of its four members — end up feeding its music?
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of feeding
Verb
  • Ugreen says this capability adds the option for enterprise-class endurance and sustained write performance in the main storage bay, which would be beneficial for housing active project files, virtual machine storage, or databases.
    — John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The area was home to four base camps, housing the teams from Argentina, Netherlands, England and Algeria (in Lawrence).
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of housing
Verb
  • Moments later, an unbothered Brown flung himself around the stadium, catering directly to his adoring, unwavering fans.
    — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Poland also has over 86,000 places of refuge offering a lower level of protection such as basements, underground garages or subway stations, and catering for around 23 million people.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of catering
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  • The tax would be paid by lodging guests, not directly by property owners, and would remain in place until ended by voters.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • That officer then shot into Perez's vehicle, lodging a bullet in his back, officials say.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of lodging
Verb
  • Families would do well to check into either the Suisho suite—spacious and comfortable in accommodating rollaway beds or cots, with private dining available on the balcony—or Kinu, with its tatami mat floor sleeping area with family-friendly futons.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Phase two will expand even further, accommodating all 8,500 stalls currently operating at Kantamanto Market.
    — Bella Webb, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of accommodating
Verb
  • The other half of the floor is then an empty vestibule for sheltering all kinds of gear and luggage.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2026
  • The midday heat is stifling, even more so for Eilyn Solano, who has been sheltering in a tent for over 100 days.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of sheltering
Verb
  • There wasn’t much original detail left from the era of merchant families; during the rooming-house years, details were stripped and fireplaces boarded over.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Through the course of rooming together in dorms at rookie minicamp, doing community service work, taking group trips to Braves games and, of course, navigating practices, the Falcons’ rookie class formed a tight bond.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of rooming
Verb
  • With a few exceptions, practices for base-camping teams weren’t open to fans, which could have altered their decision to remain in Kansas City.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Raman says that she is committed to ending homelessness, but the city has gone about it the wrong way and that no-camping zones just push the problem from one neighborhood to another.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of camping

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“Boarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarding. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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