war room
noun
1
: a room at a military headquarters where maps showing the current status of troops in battle are maintained
2
: a room (as at a business headquarters) used for conferences and planning that is often specially equipped (as with computers, or charts)
Examples of war room in a Sentence
the war room of the candidate's campaign headquarters
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As chair of the Senate Republican Conference, Cotton transformed the office — and its X account — into a war room for Gabbard.
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Stef W. Kight, Axios, 4 Feb. 2025
Within minutes, 47 frustrated engineers flood the war room, followed by dozens of emergency calls and bleary-eyed troubleshooting.
—Karthik Sj, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
There is no longer even a visual of the war room as a specific room in one place.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
Every day the homicide detectives walked into a war room.
—Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
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Stef W. Kight, Axios, 4 Feb. 2025
Within minutes, 47 frustrated engineers flood the war room, followed by dozens of emergency calls and bleary-eyed troubleshooting.
—Karthik Sj, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
There is no longer even a visual of the war room as a specific room in one place.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
Every day the homicide detectives walked into a war room.
—Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
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“War room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war%20room. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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