governing board

1. 1.

   a board that manages the affairs of an institution

   Broaderboard

   Narrowerboard of regentsboard of trustees

Questions about governing board

What does governing board mean?

governing board means "a board that manages the affairs of an institution".

Is governing board a common word?

governing board 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.