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aboveboard

[uh-buhv-bawrd, -bohrd] / əˈbʌvˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /




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“It’s all aboveboard and legal. People say, you can’t do that, but, yes, you can,” Letsch said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

He and his colleagues have instead designed an aboveboard playbook for reducing tariffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025

"China never interferes in other countries' internal affairs and always acts in an open and aboveboard manner," the Chinese embassy in London has previously said.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2025

Even if you’re 100% aboveboard, this uncertainty is a piece we can’t control.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025

The only problem being, of course, that whenever you ran an operation that was not aboveboard there was a certain risk of it backfiring into a worse situation than it had been before.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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