interlocking directorate
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The DOJ raised concerns that that executives holding seats on both Endeavor and Live Nation’s boards constituted an “illegal interlocking directorate.”
From Los Angeles Times
The Justice Department said that it had expressed concern about the presence of the two men on the board creating “an illegal interlocking directorate,” where two competitors have the same people running them.
From Reuters
The poetry editor is almost invariably the house poet or a person who is working with the interlocking directorate of establishment poets.
From New York Times
They are sold by the West African Remedy Co., the Pearce Health Institute, the Oriental Institute of Science and the Africa-American Institute of Science, all of which corporations have a very interlocking directorate consisting of "Dr."
From Time Magazine Archive
The effect is that the same names keep surfacing in an informal interlocking directorate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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