Definition of "above board" [above board]

• Openly, without deceit. (phrase)
• Honestly, reputably. (phrase)

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• "The only active Communist that I know of that was above board that we had working in the office at that time, was an old lady, well she's not so old now, but she seemed old then, her name was Mrs. Rosenbaum, and she was Eugene Rostow's aunt and the other"