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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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Noun

Illuminated billboards along busy commercial corridors now dim soon after sunset, while shops close an hour early.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
Less than two weeks before the October 27 vote, the billboards of Netanyahu are back.

— Kevin Liptak, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of billboard

Noun

Every year after Halloween, Spirit Halloween’s stores empty out and the signs come down.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
One particularly promising example is an MRI technique that identifies the central vein sign, a feature that can help physicians distinguish lesions associated with MS from abnormalities caused by other conditions.

— Bruce Bebo, STAT, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of sign

Noun

The demonstrators can be seen chanting and holding placards in the video above, from the Reuters news agency.

— Elina Baudier Kim, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Sacramento County Health Inspectors gave a red placard to the Land Park eatery after finding a dead rat and rodent droppings in the facility.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of placard

Noun

Pastries containing squash for which there is a poster indicating a shelf life of two days under refrigeration, were for sale and at room temperature without time-mark indicators to be discarded.

— NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
David Boscarino, a 63-year-old Bethany resident who attended with his wife, Carol, and three friends, carried a two-sided poster.

— Reginald David, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026

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