across the board

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   including all

   “we got a pay raise across the board”

Questions about across the board

What does across the board mean?

across the board means "including all".

Is across the board a common word?

across the board is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.