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across the board
USUK
affecting everyone or everything in a group in the same way
Hyphenated before a noun: 'across-the-board cuts'. Common in news about pay, prices and taxes. US 'percent', 'gas'.
In context
The company announced a five per cent pay rise across the board.
Prices have gone up across the board, from rice to petrol.
More idioms about business
- a ballpark figurea rough number that is close to the real amount
- a big playera powerful and important person or company in a field
- a bottlenecka point where progress slows because too much has to pass through it
- a deal breakera fact or condition that makes you refuse to accept an agreement
- a dog-eat-dog worlda situation where people compete hard and will harm others to succeed