Meeting vs Boardroom - What's the difference?
meeting | boardroom |
(uncountable) The action of the verb to meet .
A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
An encounter between people, even accidental.
A place or instance of junction or intersection.
A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
*1939 , (John Steinbeck), (The Grapes of Wrath) , p. 20:
*:You use ta give a good meetin' . I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.
the room where a group of people (especially the board of a company or organization) conducts its meetings
* 1830 : Charles Babbage, Decline of Science in England
(figuratively) corporations or corporate management considered as a section of society
As nouns the difference between meeting and boardroom
is that meeting is the action of the verb to meet while boardroom is the room where a group of people (especially the board of a company or organization) conducts its meetings.As a verb meeting
is present participle of lang=en.meeting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- We need to have a meeting about that soon.
- What has the meeting decided.
- They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
- Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
Derived terms
* meetinghouse * meeting of the minds * meeting place * meeting room * race meeting * Sunday-go-to-meetingSynonyms
* assembly * convocation * gatheringDescendants
* Crimean Tatar: (l) (borrowed) * French: (l) (borrowed) * Russian: (borrowed) * Serbo-Croatian: (l)/ (borrowed) * Tagalog: (l) (borrowed)Statistics
*Anagrams
* ----boardroom
English
Alternative forms
* board-room, board roomNoun
(en noun)- a President of the Royal Society, in the Board-room of the British Museum, is quite as likely as another person to sacrifice his public duty to the influence of power, or to private friendship.
- Though the new law is popular among the general public, it is hated in the boardroom .