Definitions for across-the-board

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Spelling: [uh-kraws-th uh-bawrd

IPA: /əˈkrɔs ðəˈbɔrd, -ˈboʊrd, əˈkrɒs-/

Across-The-Board is a 16 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 2094 anagrams from letters in across-the-board (--aabcdehoorrsst).

Definitions for across-the-board

adjective

1. applying to all employees, members, groups, or categories; general:
2. (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.

Origin of across-the-board

First recorded in 1940-45

Examples for across-the-board

And the sequestration – a set of indiscriminate, across-the-board cuts – is supposed to go into effect in a matter of weeks.

The real deadline will come in 2013, when the $1.2 trillion in automatic, across-the-board budget cuts kick in.

An aura of impotence has consumed the government, as deep, across-the-board cuts everyone says they oppose set in.

If the across-the-board cuts deepen, the temptation could grow to raid this pool down the road.

There needs to be an across-the-board, consistent defense of the constitutional separation of powers.

And in this era of impact-blind, across-the-board budget cuts, we see an opportunity.

As a result, across-the-board spending cuts are likely to cut quite deep.

Together, we passed the first across-the-board tax reduction for everyone since the Kennedy tax cuts.

Some of them, like an across-the-board tariff on Chinese goods, might actually work.

As for revamping Medicare, this is an across-the-board stinker.