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

Recent Examples on the Web

CrowdStrike has also been holding war rooms with Microsoft to remediate the problem as quickly as possible, and Microsoft has not had any conversations about revoking the level of access CrowdStrike products have to Windows systems, the source added. —Sam Sabin, Axios, 24 July 2024

The transactions turned a busy couple days at the Warriors’ war room in Chase Center into wonky ones. —Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 27 June 2024

But the biggest difference will be the man running point in the Orioles’ draft war room: Matt Blood. —Matt Weyrich, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2024

Fans are not often given such an in-depth look at the drafting process, apart from seeing images of the war rooms that are shown during the Draft. —James Brizuela, Newsweek, 10 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1901, in the meaning defined at sense 1