war room

/wɔːr ruːm/

strategic planning space

The marketing team set up a war room to coordinate the product launch.

They created a dedicated space for intense planning and monitoring.

Business

formal

A room equipped for intensive planning, coordination, and monitoring, especially during a crisis, major project, or high‑stakes situation.

During the election campaign, the candidate's staff operated a war room to track media coverage and voter sentiment.

The team used a dedicated space to monitor and respond to real‑time developments.

Originally a military term, now widely used in business, politics, and emergency management.

Collocations

set up a war roomestablish a dedicated planning spacerun a war roommanage the activities inside the strategic spacewar‑room briefinga focused update meeting held in the war room

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