boardman

noun

Definition of boardmannext
as in officer

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  1. officer
  2. official
  3. commissioner
  4. middle manager
Noun
  • According to the district’s chief business officer Gerardo Castillo, Sac City Unified’s initial report included only its 2025-26 expenditures and left out spending from 2024-25.
    — Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s chief product officer and an advisor at Collective[i], summed it up in a single line.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of officer
Noun
  • On Friday, the Justice Department followed up with a warning that state election officials who knowingly process ballots cast by noncitizen voters are at risk of investigation.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The ongoing war in Iran has centered on nuclear issues, including enrichment—Iranian officials have resisted any peace-deal terms that restrict the country’s enrichment program.
    — Nick Bockelman, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of official
Noun
  • Russia and Ukraine are engaged in talks on ending the plight of people trapped in Oleshky, Ukrainian human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets said in an interview with Espreso.
    — SAMYA KULLAB, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Abbas has declined to join a separate joint list of Arab parties and appointed Yoav Segalovitz, a Jewish politician and former police commissioner, as his deputy.
    — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of commissioner
Noun
  • The middle manager does not go extinct.
    — Brett Hurt, Fortune, 23 June 2026
  • Slot, as head coach, was more of a middle manager; someone who acted with the objectivity of a civil servant and the occasional bluntness of a corrections officer.
    — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 30 May 2026
Definition of middle manager
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