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signboard

noun

Definition of signboard

as in billboard

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Recent Examples of signboard Special offers communicated on signboards right next to the point of purchase, are more likely to be acted on. — Michelle Greenwald, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025 Hung in the front rooms are seven paintings on signboard by Kirk Hayes of Fort Worth, a Conduit artist since 1997. — Benjamin Lima special Contributor, Dallas Morning News, 17 Jan. 2026 This is the era of the signboard—the Cobbler’s boot, the Baker’s sheaf of wheat—symbols that hung over muddy European streets to tell the illiterate masses where to spend their coin. — Eben Shapiro, Time, 8 Feb. 2026 Gas prices — emblazoned in big numbers on signboards across every city — are the most tangible and emotional touchpoint of the global economy for US voters, and infamously decisive in national elections. — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 12 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for signboard

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Noun

Officials, still working on guidance that will allow third parties to host the accounts, are also eyeing ways to increase enrollment, including partnering with brands, erecting billboards, and collaborating with medical facilities.

— Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 6 July 2026
Others carried banners, while billboards across the city bore Khamenei’s image.

— Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 4 July 2026

Definition of billboard

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The placards displayed the women’s aspirations of becoming actors, models, pilots and lawyers — many of whom went on to achieve these dreams.

— Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026
Nena’s Mexican Restaurant was reinspected on Friday, June 26 and passed with a green placard.

— Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado July 3, Sacbee.com, 3 July 2026

Definition of placard

Noun

Customers can collect 10 unique items, including individual BT21 character ring clips, a group ship toy, and a poster with stickers.

— Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
If the cheerily rhyming title about murder doesn’t quite do it for you, just Google what the posters look like.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026

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