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writers' room

writers' room noun: the room in which the showrunner and the writers of a television series collaborate on the plot and develop the script.

Noun

writers' room (plural writers' rooms)

  1. The room in which the showrunner and the writers of a television series collaborate on the plot and develop the script.
    • The showrunner ist the ringmaster for the writers' room—the final authority. There is some form of a whiteboard on the walls of the room, where the plots for future episodes are outlined.2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 66

Forms of writers' room

pluralwriters' rooms

Questions about writers' room

What does writers' room mean?
Writers' room means the room in which the showrunner and the writers of a television series collaborate on the plot and develop the script.
What part of speech is writers' room?
Writers' room is a noun.
What is the plural of writers' room?
The plural of writers' room is writers' rooms.

Words near writers' room in the dictionary

  1. writerling
  2. writerlings
  3. writerly
  4. writers
  5. writers' blocks
  6. writers' room
  7. writers' rooms
  8. writership
  9. writerships
  10. writes
  11. writes checks one can't cash

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