Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A board bearing a sign.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A board on which a notice is fixed, as of one's place of business, of goods for sale, or of warning against trespass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A board, placed on or before a shop, office, etc., on which ssome notice is given, as the name of a firm, of a business, or the like.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A
board carrying asign , or on which signs may be posted.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
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Examples
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Anil Biswas then sucks up the big bourgeoisie of the Third world by superciliously trampling underfoot Lenin's and Mao's lessons on the so-called signboard of freedom of the backward third world countries at one stroke.
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Me and the landlord of a public there came to words, by reason he called his house 'The Admiral Howe,' but on his signboard was the face of a different man altogether.
The Mayor of Troy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Anil Biswas then sucks up the big bourgeoisie of the Third world by superciliously trampling underfoot Lenin’s and Mao’s lessons on the so-called signboard of freedom of the backward third world countries at one stroke.
A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007
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"signboard," men sat and talked of their various trades, the cobbler, for instance, who is carved on the Cathedral stalls, with the clog-maker, and the wool-comber, and the carpenter, all met and gossiped of their latest piece of profitable business, while the lawyers discussed the never-ending question of the Privilège de St. Romain with some learned clerk over their "vin blanc d'Anjou."
The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897
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But to my surprise, when I bought my ticket to watch this year's show at the August 2010 Sussex County Fair, a giant signboard boldly publicized Dobbs's sponsorship.
Isabel Macdonald: The Dobbs & Pony Show: Snapshots of America's Immigration Hypocrisy Isabel Macdonald 2010
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But to my surprise, when I bought my ticket to watch this year's show at the August 2010 Sussex County Fair, a giant signboard boldly publicized Dobbs's sponsorship.
Isabel Macdonald: The Dobbs & Pony Show: Snapshots of America's Immigration Hypocrisy Isabel Macdonald 2010
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Sajjad Hussain/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A file photo of a man walking past the signboard of telecom firm Vodafone outside their corporate office in Mumbai.
Vodafone Wins India Tax Case Amol Sharma 2012
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Reuters Aung San Suu Kyi, center, and National League for Democracy party leader Tin Oo cut a ribbon during a ceremony to inaugurate their party's new signboard Monday at the NLD's head office in Yangon.
Dissident's Candidacy Shows Shift in Myanmar Patrick Barta 2012
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Two Chinese workers walk pass a huge signboard for a property project in Qingdao, eastern China's Shandong province.
Australia Risks China Hard Landing Cynthia Koons 2011
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And here he was, driving past the Lorelei, when he saw a huge signboard on the front wall:
Lorelei 2010
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