Usually means: To be adjacent or near.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. border on: Merriam-Webster
  2. border on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. border on: Vocabulary.com
  4. border on: Wiktionary
  5. border on: Dictionary.com
  6. border on: Rhymezone
  7. border on: FreeDictionary.org
  8. border on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. border on: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. border on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. border on: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. border on: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. border on: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (border on)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To share a border with.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figurative) To be almost like some other thing; to verge on.

Similar:
approach, border, borderline, confine, abut on, abut, emborder, imborder, bound, march, more...

Opposite:
be far from, be distant from, be removed from

Types:
within, bordering, abutting, adjoining, next to, beside, more...

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Similar:
approach, border, borderline, confine, abut on, abut, emborder, imborder, bound, march, more...

Opposite:
be far from, be distant from, be removed from

Types:
within, bordering, abutting, adjoining, next to, beside, more...



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