Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

power lunch

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.60 in modern English

Syllables: pow-er lunch
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A working lunch at which bosses make business decisions or hold important discussions.

Example Sentences

"Difficult as it is to recollect today, tiki was a highbrow phenomenon: Trader Vic’s in the Washington, D.C., Hilton, for instance, became a famed venue for mid-century power lunches."

Etymology

Coined by American editor and author Lee Eisenberg in 1979, in the Esquire article America’s Most Powerful Lunch.

Inflected Forms

power lunches (plural)

Phrases

power luncher power lunching

Frequently Paired Words

power coffee

Questions

What does power lunch mean?: A working lunch at which bosses make business decisions or hold important discussions.
Where does power lunch come from?: Coined by American editor and author Lee Eisenberg in 1979, in the Esquire article America’s Most Powerful Lunch.

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