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aboveboard
[uh-buhv-bawrd, -bohrd]
adverb
in open sight; without tricks, concealment, or disguise.
Their actions are open and aboveboard.
Synonyms: ,Antonyms: , ,
Word History and Origins
Origin of aboveboard1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
Shy’s employment history is largely aboveboard, but he’s done things for money that by his own admission are inexcusably vile.
Mr. Gertler has said that all his investments in Congo were aboveboard.
EcoHealth’s relationship with Chinese research institutions was open and aboveboard, and its funnelling U.S. grants to those institutions explicitly approved by the NIH and HHS.
They arrived in Quebec with their grandmother when Antigone was only three, having lost both their parents; the two brothers now provide for their meager household — through aboveboard as well as illicit means involving gangs.
At least this money grab is aboveboard and the exploitation is somewhat mutual.
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