board of trustees
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3.2
- noun
- Formal
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patronato
- With the board of trustees invested in our proposal, we were ready to begin the transformation.
- board of trustees elected
- chair of the board of trustees
- member of the board of trustees
We spent the last six months doing an extensive search and ended up with a unanimous recommendation to the Board of Trustees.
- We spent the last six months doing an extensive search and ended up with a unanimous recommendation to the Board of Trustees.
- He just attended their national Board of Trustees meeting, had flown back with his son, was in San Jose Airport and had another cardiac arrest.
Examples
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Ineffective leadership from the chair can create instability on the board of trustees.
Academic text (2003) -
Friday afternoon she arranged a last-minute dinner for the school's board of trustees.
Fiction book (1994) -
But if you go before a board of trustees, make it short, straight to the point.
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The board of trustees would like to know more about the details of your efforts.
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The board of trustees is looking for my replacement.
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One of the first acts of a newly elected board of trustees is the election of board officers.
Academic text (2003) -
Each community college is governed by a local board of trustees.
Academic text (2002) -
The seven individuals that comprise an elected board of trustees are responsible only to the community.
Academic text (2003) -
Herman Badillo is the former chairman of the board of trustees of the City University of New York.
Academic text (2001) -
The board of trustees will meet next week to discuss the new budget for the school.
Synonyms
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3.2
A group of people chosen to manage an organization
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3.5
A group of people who direct and make important decisions for an organization
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6.1
A group who run a college or university and make key decisions about rules, staff, and students
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'board' (a committee) combined with 'trustees' (people who manage others' assets): a learner who knows both words will infer it is the committee composed of trustees. This noun + of + noun compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English naming conventions, so it should be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Board of trustees comes from the image of trusted people sitting around a board, a flat table, to make decisions. The trustees are people chosen to 'watch over' the school or organization, so the phrase means the group that guides and cares for it.