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across the board

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across the board
Fig. [distributed] equally for everyone or everything. The school board raised the pay of all the teachers across the board.
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across the board
if something is done, happens, or exists across the board, it is done, happens, or exists in every part or area of something The company is proposing to cut spending right across the board. Even as late as September, there are still course vacancies across the board, although the majority are in sciences.
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across the board
including all parts of something The new law reduces taxes on products across the board, from wheat to cars to cell phones.
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The afternoon sun streamed in through the great arched windows and lay in broad squares of light upon the stone floor and across the board covered with a snowy linen cloth, whereon was spread a princely feast.
 
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