boardroom
See also: board-room and board room
English
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Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈbɔɹdˌɹuːm/
Noun
boardroom (plural boardrooms)
- The room where a group of people (especially the board of a company or organization) conducts its meetings
- 1830: Charles Babbage, Decline of Science in England
- A President of the Royal Society, in the Board-room of the British Museum, is quite as likely as another person to sacrifice his public duty to the influence of power, or to private friendship.
- 1830: Charles Babbage, Decline of Science in England
- (figuratively) Corporations or corporate management considered as a section of society
- Though the new law is popular among the general public, it is hated in the boardroom.
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