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offboard

offboard verb: to alight, especially from public transit or an aircraft. Also the alternative form of off board.

Verb

offboard (third-person singular simple present offboards, present participle offboarding, simple past and past participle offboarded)

  1. To alight, especially from public transit or an aircraft.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To prepare someone's departure from a group.
    • It's easiest to onboard and offboard employees if you have a checklist to follow.2022, Audrey O'Shea, Jeff T. Parker, CompTIA A+ Complete Practice Tests […] , John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
    • There were memes about divorce rates spiking in San Francisco, about “offboarding” one’s wife and about requiring your partner to submit a “purchase order approval form” to spend money.2024 May 12, Erin Griffith, “Honey, I Love You. Didn’t You See My Slack About It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Antonyms:
    onboard

Noun

offboard (plural offboards)

  1. A feed, video, image, etc., taken of a vehicle's situation, from a position that is not on the vehicle.

Also used as

offboard is also the alternative form of off board.

Antonyms of offboard

Forms of offboard

Verb
third-person singular presentoffboards
present participleoffboarding
past participleoffboarded
pastoffboarded
Noun
pluraloffboards

Origin of offboard

off + board, from off board (“phrase”), equivalent to off- + board.

Questions about offboard

What does offboard mean?
Offboard means to alight, especially from public transit or an aircraft.
What part of speech is offboard?
Offboard can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of offboard?
The past tense of offboard is offboarded.

Words near offboard in the dictionary

  1. offbeam
  2. offbear
  3. offbeat
  4. offbeatness
  5. offbeats
  6. offboard
  7. offboarded
  8. offboarding
  9. offboards
  10. offbreak
  11. offbreaks

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