board of trustees

1. 1.

   a governing board elected or appointed to direct the policies of an educational institution

   Broadergoverning board

Questions about board of trustees

What does board of trustees mean?

board of trustees means "a governing board elected or appointed to direct the policies of an educational institution".

Is board of trustees a common word?

board of trustees is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.