think-tank

plural think-tanks

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of think tank.

present singular third person think-tanks · participle present think-tanking · participle past think-tanked · past think-tanked

1. ambitransitiveTo perform research and develop recommendations as part of a think tank.

   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.

   2013, Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story, →ISBN

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   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.

   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

   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.

   1990, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Crisis, page 20

   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, Warren Henderson, Destiny to Die, →ISBN

   To Schroeder, the trip to FedEx's 2015 small-business summit, where she and fellow winners “think-tanked it out,” was invaluable.

   2016, Finance Your Business, →ISBN