board of directors

noun phrase

: a group of people who manage or direct a company or organization

She's on the board of directors for a large corporation.

Examples of board of directors in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Steiner, a former CEO of the nation’s largest waste management company and a former member of the FedEx board of directors, took over the struggling Postal Service last July. —ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026

Cordani, 60, will remain chairman of the insurer’s board of directors. —Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2026

The newspaper also wanted to know how an organization with limited experience and a two-member board of directors came to be selected for a pair of contracts worth almost $12 million. —Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026

The festival announced that La Biennale di Venezia’s board of directors, chaired by Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, had approved the re-appointment. —Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 3 Mar. 2026

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Legal Definition

board of directors

often capitalized B&D

: a group of individuals elected by the shareholders of a corporation to manage the corporation's business and appoint its officers