above-board en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /əˈbʌvˌbɔɹd/ (US)
- (US) audio
Etymology
From above + board (“table”). First attested in 1610. Said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamblers, who, when they change their cards, put their hands under the table.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception.
Nothing illegal about any of this to my knowledge. Indeed, this is the very above-board racket of running an independent political committee. Everyone does it. Left, right, center and none of the above. And anyway, why shouldn't a true pay-triot get paid?
2013 May 15, Stephen Lemons, “Joe Arpaio's Fave Pay-triot John Philip Sousa IV Fires Back, Makes Bank Off Peddling Joe”, in Phoenix New Times, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2019:Over the weekend, Android owners were displeased to discover that Facebook had been scraping their text-message and phone-call metadata, in some cases for years, an operation hidden in the fine print of a user agreement clause until Ars Technica reported. Facebook was quick to defend the practice as entirely aboveboard—small comfort to those who are beginning to realize that, because Facebook is a free service, they and their data are by necessity the products.
2018 March 26, Maya Kosoff, “Zuckerberg hits users with the hard truth: You agreed to this”, in Vanity Fair:fair and aboveboard
Forms
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Translations (15)
de ehrlich (straightforward, transparent) · uk відвертий (straightforward, transparent) · nl openlijk (straightforward, transparent) · uk чесний (straightforward, transparent) · fi salailematon (straightforward, transparent) · es legítimo (straightforward, transparent) · de einwandfrei (straightforward, transparent) · mi matanui (straightforward, transparent) · de offen (straightforward, transparent) · fi avoin (straightforward, transparent) · de (die Karten liegen) auf dem Tisch (straightforward, transparent) · fi rehellinen (straightforward, transparent) · de korrekt (straightforward, transparent) · nl op eerlijke wijze (straightforward, transparent) · fi läpinäkyvä (straightforward, transparent)