think tank

1. 1.

   a company that does research for hire and issues reports on the implications

   Synonymsthink factory

   Broadercompany

Questions about think tank

What does think tank mean?

think tank means "a company that does research for hire and issues reports on the implications".

What is another word for think tank?

Close synonyms include think factory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is think tank a common word?

think tank 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.