boiler room
noun
1
: a room in which a boiler is located
2
: a room equipped with telephones used for making high-pressure usually fraudulent sales pitches
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The waste sawdust was automatically piped away by a vacuum-like collection system, then sent through a chute and down a pipe into the boiler room.
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Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2024
When Working Girl: The Musical is chosen instead, Louise helps Gene stage a guerilla production in the school’s basement boiler room.
—Lillian Brown, Vulture, 17 May 2024
Conroy, a longtime prosecutor and senior adviser in the Investigation Division, has extensive experience in the courtroom — from murder cases, Ponzi schemes, insider thefts, and boiler room stock frauds.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2024
How about American law enforcement offer help to those nations in closing down their boiler rooms?
—Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2024
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Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2024
When Working Girl: The Musical is chosen instead, Louise helps Gene stage a guerilla production in the school’s basement boiler room.
—Lillian Brown, Vulture, 17 May 2024
Conroy, a longtime prosecutor and senior adviser in the Investigation Division, has extensive experience in the courtroom — from murder cases, Ponzi schemes, insider thefts, and boiler room stock frauds.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2024
How about American law enforcement offer help to those nations in closing down their boiler rooms?
—Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2024
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“Boiler room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boiler%20room. Accessed 22 Oct. 2024.
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