Across-the-board and Utmost

Across-the-board adjective - Belonging or relating to the whole.

Utmost and across-the-board are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Utmost" instead a noun phrase "Across-the-board".

Utmost noun - The greatest possible degree.

Across-the-board and utmost are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Across-the-board" with "Utmost", this terms are similar.