Word.ws English Dictionary

on-board

on-board is the alternative form of onboard.

Meaning of onboard

Adjective

onboard (not comparable)

  1. Carried or used on or in a vehicle or vessel.
    • “We are aware that there has been an unauthorized release of video footage from flight deck cameras onboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) of the F-35C Lightning II crash that occurred Jan. 24, in the South China Sea. There is an ongoing investigation into both the crash and the unauthorized release of...2022 February 7, Brad Lendon, Ivan Watson, “Newly leaked video shows F-35 crashing in flames on aircraft carrier”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2022
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Being a part of, being included in, participating in.
    • When it comes to security, everybody seems to be as onboard as I am.

See all 6 meanings of onboard

Questions about on-board

What is on-board the alternative form of?
On-board is the alternative form of onboard.

Words near on-board in the dictionary

  1. on-and-off
  2. on-base percentage
  3. on-base percentages
  4. on-base plus slugging
  5. on-beam
  6. on-board
  7. on-brand
  8. on-call
  9. on-camera
  10. on-campus
  11. on-chain

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: on-board (page history and authors); onboard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “on-board.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/on-board. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.