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signboard

noun

Definition of signboard

as in billboard

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Recent Examples of signboard 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 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 There is no signboard or registration, no website to market their work. — Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for signboard

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The trailer will go to theaters on Friday, along with lobby posters, and billboard ads are due to begin in November.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026
The billboards feature a photo of Elhosseiny with the viral photo of Holmes in a black turtleneck that promotes Just Blood.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026

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Sacramento County Health Inspectors gave a red placard to a local grocery store after finding a cockroach egg sac stuck on a glue trap.

— Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
And all around it, most of the little placards identifying native plants are broken or missing.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

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