on board
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1.8
- idiom
- /ɑn bɔrd/
:
a bordo
- After scanning their tickets, the passengers were allowed to get on board the airplane.
- on board the ship
- people on board
- on board a vessel
And then I spent a year on board an aircraft carrier, HMS Invincible.
- And then I spent a year on board an aircraft carrier, HMS Invincible.
- What about now that we've got imaging from the near Cam detector on board JWST?
- Would they do a test flight without humans on board to that goes to the moon or no?
- He grabbed me again, pulled me on board.
- It hires crew here and there and they come on board.
- So you guys have had it with the baby on board stickers.
- It is a crashed vehicle that had beings on board.
- And then when you've decided where the train is heading, get moving and get on board.
- But Jack, Jack and I would sit on board that ship, Jack and I would sit on board the carrier and he'd say, why did you say that?
- And as we got them on board, the first three people on was our mum, dad and brother.
- And we were able to kind of get the National Army Reserve there, let us get on board their barracks.
Examples
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And then I spent a year on board an aircraft carrier, HMS Invincible.
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There he was received on board the royal yacht at Ostend and introduced to the king.
Academic text (1998) -
And as people come on board, they do the same thing.
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All right, now it's back on board for a quick lunch.
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We will be back on board by then.
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We met our first night on board ship.
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The Queen Mother and the rest of the royal party are already on board.
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All passengers should now be on board.
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Many of the people on board were of the EBO Nation.
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They offer a pool safety class on board.
Synonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal composition 'on' + 'board' clearly yields a physical/location sense (being on a vehicle or platform) which a B1 learner can derive, but the idiomatic meaning 'in agreement/supportive' is a metaphorical extension of that physical sense and is not fully predictable from the constituents. Because the relation to the parts is partially clear but requires exposure to the figurative use, the MWE is best classified as semi-transparent.
Etymology
On board comes from people standing on the ship's board, a wooden plank, so it originally meant being on the ship. So today on board still means 'inside' or 'on' a plane, train, or ship.