boardroom
- noun
- /ˈbɔrdˌrum/
- During the meeting in the boardroom, the team reviewed the annual performance reports.
Like we didn't go to boardrooms and stuff like that to meet these artists.
- Like we didn't go to boardrooms and stuff like that to meet these artists.
- So I told my team in our boardroom what I needed.
- I think it is a strength in the in the boardroom.
- But early on in the company, he set up a couch in his boardroom.
- And you think I understand that when you're sat in a boardroom that it kind of sounds cool.
- They could address their grievances in the boardroom, not on the picket line.
- It's it's not a conspiracy theory to think that there's a bunch of people sitting in boardrooms saying how can we be more profitable?
- You have to know how to think because go into businesses and go into the, you know, little boardrooms or big boardrooms.
- So they go into that room where there's a long table and there's those green lights that they use in boardrooms.
Examples
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My father always said he made more deals on the golf course than in the boardroom.
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Catherine Ruffin and Sturtevant were already waiting in the boardroom when he came.
Fiction book (1993) -
So I told my team in our boardroom what I needed.
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But they never got beyond the boardroom table.
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Think about how this works in the corporate boardroom or you know, in the factory.
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In the give and take in the boardroom, they must remember that governance is, fundamentally, a team sport.
Academic text (2006) -
Doors open and the boardroom fills with suits: six men, one woman.
Fiction book (1999) -
The doctor sits at the head of a boardroom-style table.
Fiction book (1998) -
As she entered the boardroom, everyone seemed cordial, and soon her apprehensions lessened.
Fiction book (1993) -
Martin Humphries strode into the boardroom, decked out in a sky-blue business suit.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
A room in an office where people meet to discuss work
A room where local officials meet to make decisions for a town or city
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word boardroom is made of board and room. Board once meant 'table', and people who sat at that table became the 'board', so a boardroom is the room where those directors meet.