think-tank
See also: thinktank and think tank
English
Noun
think-tank (plural think-tanks)
- Alternative spelling of think tank
Verb
think-tank (third-person singular simple present think-tanks, present participle think-tanking, simple past and past participle think-tanked)
- To perform research and develop recommendations as part of a think tank.
- 1985, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice, Audio and Video First Sale Doctrine:
- The chairman had some quite remarkable hearings last year — I think you cited in your testimony Dr. Lange and others who came here and sort of think-tanked for us — and it was very interesting.
- 1990, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Crisis, page 20:
- In either event, depending on the nature of the business and the help needed, assistance through the entire procedure will be provided. Everything from devising a business plan to business expansion strategies are think-tanked.
- 2013, Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story, →ISBN:
- Bill will change jobs to be closer, will move from D.C. to L.A., just after the riots, and will do his think-tanking there.
- 2016, Warren Henderson, Destiny to Die, →ISBN:
- And punishing the ones who were responsible for think-tanking, creating and unleashing this horrible monster, murdering biological warfare on the people, while being faithfully, willingly and ready to die in accomplishing their conquest against these evil-doers.
- 2016, Finance Your Business, →ISBN:
- To Schroeder, the trip to FedEx's 2015 small-business summit, where she and fellow winners “think-tanked it out,” was invaluable.
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