Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Carried or used aboard a vehicle or vessel.
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- adjective
Carried orused on or in avehicle orvessel - adverb On or in a vehicle or vessel;
aboard ;on board .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Vice Admiral Samarasinghe emphasized the importance of deploying what he called onboard security teams to protect ships vulnerable to attack.
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Utilizing the old sci-fi stand-by of hypersleep, every person onboard is laid in a pod Futurama-style and put into a temporary coma to make the multiple-lightyear journey.
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The 49 passengers and 2 children held on laps were forced to remain onboard overnight with little food or water and a smelly toilet.
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Everyone equipped to respond gets the willies and eventually discover everyone onboard is dead for unknown reasons.
Rabid Reads "The Strain" by Chuck Hogan * Guillermo Del Toro 2009
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If this had happened even ten years before, the Turkish and German governments would have been completely onboard from the beginning, with troops and everything else, no matter how strongly their populations opposed it.
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If this had happened even ten years before, the Turkish and German governments would have been completely onboard from the beginning, with troops and everything else, no matter how strongly their populations opposed it.
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These are sometimes called onboard or internal modems.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows prabhataits 2010
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During a phone call onboard Air Force One, Obama said "the status quo is unacceptable."
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During a phone call onboard Air Force One, Obama said "the status quo is unacceptable."
unknown title 2009
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Board the plane – I’ve have also done that many times before; getting me onboard is in the hands of staff, I know the drill.
Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2010 » February 2010
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