Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The room where the members of a board meet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The room or office in which a board meets to transact business.
- noun In mining, the space excavated in driving a board.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
room where a group of people (especially theboard of a company or organization) conducts itsmeetings - noun figuratively
corporations or corporatemanagement considered as a section of society
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company)
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Examples
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Cardnetics, his 2 crazy transformable business card creations that literally reinvents the term boardroom battles!
Design Sojourn 2010
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Whether the generation of young business people, brought up on Yahoo Finance and Motley Fool, feel the same way about The Journal when they get to the boardroom is an open question.
Murdoch Decides to Take WSJ.com’s Money Now - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Whether the generation of young business people, brought up on Yahoo Finance and Motley Fool, feel the same way about The Journal when they get to the boardroom is an open question.
Murdoch Decides to Take WSJ.com’s Money Now - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The Dartmouth boardroom is an extraordinarily conformity-inducing environment and it takes a strong sense of independence in order to keep from being assimilated into its group-think.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Joseph Asch ’79 For Dartmouth Trustee: 2010
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"My gut feeling is that this is what we call a boardroom coup planned and executed by other board members.
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The boardroom is a highly nuanced, very human environment.
Advice To A New CEO: How To Handle Your Board Tom Wajnert 2009
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In the fiercely private corporate world, the boardroom has been a pretty serene place.
ONE MORE PINK SLIP? 2008
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The last person of all to enter the boardroom was the Senior Surgeon.
The Primrose Ring Ruth Sawyer 1925
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Perhaps the most memorable contestant ever to have faced Lord Sugar in the boardroom was the 21-year-old communications executive from Plymouth who declared himself "a brand" in his own right.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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Perhaps the most memorable contestant ever to have faced Lord Sugar in the boardroom was the 21-year-old communications executive from Plymouth who declared himself "a brand" in his own right.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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