Thesaurus results for SIGNBOARD

signboard

noun

Definition of signboard

as in billboard

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Recent Examples of signboard This is the era of the signboard—the Cobbler’s boot, the Baker’s sheaf of wheat—symbols that hung over muddy European streets to tell the illiterate masses where to spend their coin. — Eben Shapiro, Time, 8 Feb. 2026 Hung in the front rooms are seven paintings on signboard by Kirk Hayes of Fort Worth, a Conduit artist since 1997. — Benjamin Lima special Contributor, Dallas Morning News, 17 Jan. 2026 There is no signboard or registration, no website to market their work. — Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2025 Special offers communicated on signboards right next to the point of purchase, are more likely to be acted on. — Michelle Greenwald, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for signboard

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Jerusalem — The giant billboard on Tel Aviv’s main highway placed Turkey squarely at the center of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election campaign.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
The billboards, part of a campaign launched by the Florida Immigrant Coalition, will be visible from I-95 at Northwest 62nd Street and from Southwest 17th Avenue and First Street in Little Havana, according to the group.

— Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of billboard

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Private equity’s growing interest in sports teams is another sign of the buying boom, said Irwin Kirshner, the head of the sports law group at the law firm Herrick Feinstein.

— Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
In hindsight, that was a sign of having lived in the bubble of NYC cinephile culture for 20 years by that time.

— José Salazar, IndieWire, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of sign

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The re-inspection resulted in the closure and red placard being upheld after inspectors found eight live German and Turkistan cockroaches throughout the facility, plus seven dead and dying nymph cockroaches.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Look at the placard to see how many people should actually be on board that vessel.

— Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of placard

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Beginning in 1989, oil and acrylic paints gave way to olive oil, henna, tea, spices, and coffee, while animal glue, mud, and leather also shaped the group’s posters, paintings, and mixed-media assemblages.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Belle Dean, of Gary, carried a poster to raise money for her aunt and uncle, Rose and Floyd Franklin, who live in Gary’s Glen Ryan subdivision near Miller.

— Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

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