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power lunch

power lunch noun: a working lunch at which bosses make business decisions or hold important discussions.

Noun

power lunch (plural power lunches)

  1. (idiomatic) A working lunch at which bosses make business decisions or hold important discussions.
    • Difficult as it is to recollect today, tiki was a highbrow phenomenon: Trader Vic’s in the Washington, D.C., Hilton, for instance, became a famed venue for mid-century power lunches.2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic

Forms of power lunch

pluralpower lunches

Origin of power lunch

Coined by American editor and author Lee Eisenberg in 1979, in the Esquire article America’s Most Powerful Lunch.

Words formed from power lunch

Questions about power lunch

What does power lunch mean?
Power lunch means a working lunch at which bosses make business decisions or hold important discussions.
What part of speech is power lunch?
Power lunch is a noun.
What is the plural of power lunch?
The plural of power lunch is power lunches.

Words near power lunch in the dictionary

  1. power line communication
  2. power line communications
  3. power lines
  4. power loom
  5. power looms
  6. power lunch
  7. power luncher
  8. power lunchers
  9. power lunches
  10. power lunching
  11. Power Mac

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