think tank

noun

: an institute, corporation, or group organized to study a particular subject (such as a policy issue or a scientific problem) and provide information, ideas, and advice
an information technology think tank
… was responsible for the armies of new political-action committees, lobbyists and rightward think tanks that poured into Washington to counter the consumer and environmental movements he helped to inspire.Jonathan Rowe

Examples of think tank in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But as the war drags on, the European Council on Foreign Relations, or ECFR — a think tank that released a major new study on European public attitudes about the Ukraine war — pointed to emerging cracks over the nature of the conflict’s endgame in advance of the NATO summit. Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2024 Economic woes, hijab crackdowns, Internet restrictions, mismanagement and corruption are the main reasons the vote has been boycotted, according to the Stimson Center, a Washington think tank. Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 5 July 2024 The Conservatives richly deserve long-term exile for the disaster of Brexit which, according to a new report by Cambridge Econometrics, a think tank, would drain nearly $400 billion from the British economy by 2035 — a tidy sum in a country whose annual output is smaller than California’s. Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 5 July 2024 Living standards have dropped dramatically in the country, with real household disposable income falling 0.9% — the first parliamentary term in history that has left people worse off than before, according to the economic think tank the Resolution Foundation. Patrick Smith, NBC News, 2 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for think tank 

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Word History

First Known Use

1958, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of think tank was in 1958

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“Think tank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/think%20tank. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.

Kids Definition

think tank

noun
: an organization formed to think up new solutions especially for social and scientific problems
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