boardroom

noun

board·​room ˈbȯrd-ˌrüm How to pronounce boardroom (audio)
-ˌru̇m
: a room that is designated for meetings of a board

Examples of boardroom in a Sentence

The directors are meeting in the boardroom.
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As agreements like the one between OpenAI and the Pentagon suggest, the future of defence strategy will be shaped not just on battlefields or in government offices, but also in boardrooms, product decisions, and code. The Ai Insider, Interesting Engineering, 23 Mar. 2026 Nina Bellak, PhD, Senior Lecturer at the University of Vienna, links the power of English in boardrooms to postwar history. Aslesha Mehta, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2026 In a boardroom at Miami Gardens’ Hard Rock Stadium earlier this week, Joao Fonseca—the 19-year-old Brazilian tennis phenom—is making media rounds before the Miami Open begins. Nick Remsen, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2026 Two competitors may enter a boardroom with different logos and nearly identical logic. Big Think, 20 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for boardroom

Word History

First Known Use

1732, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of boardroom was in 1732

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“Boardroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boardroom. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.

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