boiler room
noun
1
: a room in which a boiler is located
2
: a room equipped with telephones used for making high-pressure usually fraudulent sales pitches
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The Merchandise Mart boiler room was 30 feet under water.
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Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
The gaping cut across the bow, showing the boiler room where the engineers perished, is an astonishing sight in the film.
—Sean Kingsley, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
One of the clearest portions of the scan is Titanic's enormous boiler rooms right at the rear bow section where the ship snapped in half.
—ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
This maintained the electricity supply and allowed crew to send distress signals, meaning the 35 men in the boiler room may have sacrificed themselves to save hundreds of other people.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2025
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Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
The gaping cut across the bow, showing the boiler room where the engineers perished, is an astonishing sight in the film.
—Sean Kingsley, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
One of the clearest portions of the scan is Titanic's enormous boiler rooms right at the rear bow section where the ship snapped in half.
—ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
This maintained the electricity supply and allowed crew to send distress signals, meaning the 35 men in the boiler room may have sacrificed themselves to save hundreds of other people.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for boiler room
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“Boiler room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boiler%20room. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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