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board-room

board-room is the alternative spelling of boardroom.

Meaning of boardroom

Noun

boardroom (plural boardrooms)

  1. The room where a group of people (especially the board of a company or organization) conducts its meetings
    • 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
  2. (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.

Forms of board-room

pluralboard-rooms

Questions about board-room

What is board-room the alternative spelling of?
Board-room is the alternative spelling of boardroom.

Words near board-room in the dictionary

  1. board-foot
  2. board-game
  3. board-gamer
  4. board-gamers
  5. board-games
  6. board-room
  7. board-rooms
  8. board-shorted
  9. boardable
  10. boardcard
  11. boardcards

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