brainstormverb [ I or T ]
uk/ˈbreɪn.stɔːm/us/ˈbreɪn.stɔːrm/(of a group of people) to suggest a lot of ideas for a future activity very quickly before considering some of them more carefully:
The team got together to brainstorm (the project).
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Suggestions & proposals
- about
- float
- get at sth
- grab
- hint
- how about...? idiom
- how does... grab you? idiom
- how/what about...? idiom
- it wouldn't hurt you to do sth idiom
- might
- offer
- on the table idiom
- point sb towards/in the direction of sth idiom
- posit
- postulate
- proposal
- propose
- put
- put ideas into sb's head idiom
- table
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brainstormnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbreɪn.stɔːm/us/ˈbreɪn.stɔːrm/informalUS UK brainwave a sudden clever idea:
The toy's inventor was watching his children play one day when he had a brainstorm.
UK a sudden state of being unable to think clearly:
I must have had a brainstorm - I went shopping and forgot to take any money.
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Ideas, concepts and theories
- abstract
- afterthought
- brainchild
- concept
- conception
- construct
- dogma
- fancy
- inspiration
- intellectual property
- IP
- ism
- meat
- proposition
- propositional
- punctuated equilibrium
- sacred cow
- straw man
- tenet
- thrust
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