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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
boardroom
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
corporate
▪ Nor are the problems confined to the rarefied atmosphere of corporate boardrooms.
▪ How does he sound populist without offending his supporters in the corporate boardroom?
▪ Do not be tempted to dismiss such corporate homilies as boardroom hokum.
▪ They may be displayed in cars, on lawns and in corporate boardrooms.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After a boardroom tussle at Paramount, its studio chief, Frank Mancuso, quit.
▪ And with that, a nineteen-year journey from a Wall Street mailroom to a Wall Street boardroom ended.
▪ But women earn only about three-fourths of the incomes earned by men, who still dominate the boardrooms and political power centers.
▪ Manion and the rest of the management team were still gathering up their materials when Katherine reentered the boardroom.
▪ Now, I try to make it a point to get out in the boardroom to recognize something or some one.
▪ She asked if he had left the boardroom before or after the altercation with his wife at the party.
▪ These activities enrich the course programme by informing undergraduate courses with the latest principles and practices emerging from international boardrooms and marketplaces.
▪ They will be doubtful if the little Englander view prevails both here and in the boardrooms of the generating companies.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
boardroom

boardroom \boardroom\ n. a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company).

Syn: council chamber.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
boardroom

also board-room, 1731, from board (n.1) in the sense of "table where council is held" + room (n.).

Wiktionary
boardroom

n. 1 the room where a group of people (especially the board of a company or organization) conducts its meetings 2 (context figuratively English) corporations or corporate management considered as a section of society

WordNet
boardroom

n. a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company) [syn: council chamber]

Usage examples of "boardroom".

Fields said, and took his arm as they started up the imposing stone staircase that led to the boardrooms and classrooms in University Hall.

Battles in boardrooms made him irritable, and he found them endlessly boring.

There were other cars ahead of them, more of the heavy-bodied black limos that signified junior executive status and were abandoned for more practical vehicles once the rider made it into the boardroom.

I went to bed, a pillow over my head to drown out the sporadic outbursts from the boardroom of Caron Malloy, Inc.

SkyLight had always had a bad tendency to change perfectly good plans for no better reason than what seemed to be the unscheduled whims of the people at boardroom level.

Mr Nelluss stood, his hands behind his back, looking out from the boardroom window of his towering corporation building at Docklands.

At the far end of the boardroom the lift light blinked red and chromium doors opened in the wall of travertine marble.

Julie slumped into one of the boardroom chairs and stared across the table at the old man who sat before her.

The special emergency meeting was being held in the penthouse boardroom, the highest pinnacle of power in Combined Media.

The boardroom itself was designed to embody, reflect, and amplify that power.

In the boardroom, there was a feeling of isolation, almost a sense of impending doom.

There had been shocks in the penthouse boardroom all through the meetingbut nothing like this.

But he prided himself that he knew human nature and the baseness therein, and between Kate Hannigan and this doctor, whom he had grown to hate, having been forced to listen to his views across the table of the boardroom in the workhouse, he sensed baseness like a hungry dog.

Ria would kill him and hang his scalp in the LlewellCo boardroom, no arguments, if he put Kayla in a dangerous situation.

On the first double-page spread was a picture of three executive types in dark suits gathered around the end of a shiny boardroom table.