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on board

Speech parts

1. on board - Adjective

2. on board - Adverb

3. on board - Interjection

4. on board - Phrase

Meaning

on a ship, train, plane or other vehicle

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on-board

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Examples

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. Zora Neale Hurston

The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible) and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided. Horatio Nelson

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good. Keanu Reeves

I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht. Anita Loos

I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun. Mikhail Lermontov

When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board. William Boyd

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