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• They have agreed to production cuts as long as they are across the board.
• Nursing unions are demanding a 4% across-the-board pay increase.
• Jobs will be lost across the board in manufacturing.
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The new 18% tax rate will apply across the board.
When the market moves up across the board, almost every stock gains in price. — Когда имеет место движение рынка по всей бирже, почти каждая акция растет в цене.
The school board raised the pay of all the teachers across the board.
The school board raised the pay of all the teachers across the board.
If you hear in the financial media that the "stock market is up across the board", it means that most of the stocks in the market are up on that day's trading. The term comes from the NYSE big board, a large board on which stock prices were once written; when the majority of prices were up or down, the movement was shown "across the board".