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单词 board of commissioners
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Board of Commissioners
b. Hence: The company of persons who meet at a council-table; the recognized word for a body of persons officially constituted for the transaction or superintendence of some particular business, indicated by the full title, as Board of Control (spec. a board of six members established by Pitt in 1784 for the supervision of the East India Company in the government of British India; abolished in 1858), Board of Trade, Board of Commissioners, Board of Directors, Board of Guardians, Local (Government) Board, Sanitary Board.See also school board n.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > board
tablea1572
board1623
council1682
supervisory board1839
management board1948
board-room1959
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. i. 79 The Honourable Boord of Councell. View more context for this quotation
1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. B3 In the ordinary course of the board.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 478. ⁋14 I would propose that there be a board of directors.
1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 73 We want no instruction from boards of trade, or from any other board.
1796 (title) Report of the Board of Health, at the first annual Meeting, May 27.
1804 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 1 1168 By command of the Master General and Board of Ordnance.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. ii. 22 ‘Bow to the board,’ said Bumble. Oliver..seeing no board but the table, fortunately bowed to that.
1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. viii. 497 Correspondence between the Board of Controul and the Crown.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 195 The treasurer had been succeeded by a board, of which a Papist was the head.
1853 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 127 1170 The President of the Board of Control.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. ix. 732 It is carried into execution by local Boards.
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