See also: off board

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Etymology

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off +‎ board

Verb

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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. (figurative, transitive) To prepare someone's departure from a group.
    Antonym: onboard
    • 2022, Audrey O'Shea, Jeff T. Parker, CompTIA A+ Complete Practice Tests [] [1], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
      It's easiest to onboard and offboard employees if you have a checklist to follow.
    • 2024 May 12, Erin Griffith, “Honey, I Love You. Didn’t You See My Slack About It?”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
      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.

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