offboard

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verb

To alight, especially from public transit or an aircraft.

Opposite
onboard
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Meanings

verboffboard (third-person singular simple present offboards, present participle offboarding, simple past and past participle offboarded)

present singular third person offboards · participle present offboarding · participle past offboarded · past offboarded

  1. To alight, especially from public transit or an aircraft.
  2. figurativelytransitiveTo prepare someone's departure from a group.

    It's easiest to onboard and offboard employees if you have a checklist to follow.

    2022, Audrey O'Shea, Jeff T. Parker, CompTIA A+ Complete Practice Tests […] , John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
    1 more example

    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.

    2024 May 12, Erin Griffith, “Honey, I Love You. Didn’t You See My Slack About It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

    Antonyms: onboard

adjectiveoffboard (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of off board
nounoffboard (plural offboards)

plural offboards

  1. artsA feed, video, image, etc., taken of a vehicle's situation, from a position that is not on the vehicle.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo prepare someone's departure from a group.

Opposite
onboard
Also see
unboard

Origin

off + board, from off board (“phrase”), equivalent to off- + board.

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APA

offboard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/offboard

MLA

“offboard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/offboard. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “offboard,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/offboard.

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