war room

Register · Neutral Neutral — appropriate in most situations, both spoken and written, without sounding too casual or too stiff. CEFR B2

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Figurative meaning

a dedicated room, channel, or meeting where a team works intensively to solve a critical problem

Why this phrase?

From military command centers where campaigns were planned and directed under pressure.

Example

“We set up a war room in Slack to debug the outage in real time.”

Dictionary details

Component words

war room

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Expressions connected by reviewed component words or topic tags.

read the room Informal · CEFR B1

to sense the mood, expectations, and dynamics of the people present

the elephant in the room Neutral · CEFR B2

an obvious and important problem that everyone notices but avoids discussing

war chest Neutral · CEFR B2

money kept in reserve for a future fight, expansion, or acquisition

circle back Informal · CEFR B1

to return to a topic or person later, after other things have happened

dry run Neutral · CEFR B1

a full practice session of a process, done for real except in name

kick off Informal · CEFR B1

to begin an event, meeting, or project

Source methodology

Meanings, register, CEFR, and examples come from the reviewed dictionary record. Expression notes may describe a reviewed present-day word picture or a background note; they are not presented as verified etymology.

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