boardroom

American  

[bawrd-room, -room, bohrd-] / ˈbɔrdˌrum, -ˌrʊm, ˈboʊrd- /

Or board room

noun

boardrooms plural

1. a room set aside for meetings of a board, as of a corporation.

2. a room in a broker's office where stock-market quotations are listed on a board or by other means.

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boardroom British  

/ ˈbɔːdˌruːm, -ˌrʊm /

noun

1. 1. a room where the board of directors of a company meets

   2. ( as modifier )

      a boardroom power struggle

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• boardrooms
  plural

Etymology

Origin of boardroom

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85; board + room

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

boardroom boardrooms

The message was clear: That which you buy digitally, you don’t really own, because a random boardroom dispute or expired contract could mean that those files are pulled without warning.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

When NBC’s Herbert Schlosser offered him this gig, he almost didn’t take it because he liked L.A., but he was immediately at home in that boardroom of 50-year-old NBC executives.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

Dan Loeb, the hedge-fund veteran famed for boardroom fights and valuing investing, admits Sam Bankman-Fried fooled him.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

Wilson was in the dark about how his reply had landed in the boardroom, and Morfitt didn’t immediately clue him in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

The trustees’ discovery that they had unwittingly funded a weapon of mass destruction was not regarded in the boardroom as grounds for pride.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

But investors, board-nominating committees and regulators now have the data to ask harder questions about who sits in corporate boardrooms – and whose company they kept.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

The market often focuses on traders, but the more important reaction comes from boardrooms.

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

"My hope is that where these institutions have led, others will follow, in workplaces, boardrooms, classrooms and on social media, so that we can finally begin to tackle this scourge together," he added.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

Before entering politics, his career was focused on dealmaking at Goldman Sachs, running two central banks in Canada and England, and corporate governance in the boardrooms, including as chairman at Brookfield Asset Management.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

The Shadowy World of International Finance Strange, penumbral, characters roam the boardrooms of banks in the countries in transition.

From Crime and Corruption by Vaknin, Samuel