power breakfast
Noun: A power breakfast is a business meeting held during the breakfast meal, typically involving influential or high-level professionals. The purpose is to discuss and conduct important business matters in a more informal setting than a standard office meeting.
This term is used to describe a specific type of professional gathering. It emphasizes the combination of a meal (breakfast) with the pursuit of business objectives, networking, or deal-making. It often implies the participants are executives, politicians, or other powerful individuals.
- The CEO scheduled a power breakfast with the investors to finalize the merger details.
- The city's mayor is known for holding power breakfasts with community leaders.
- Attending that power breakfast was crucial for making new industry contacts.
The concept can be extended metaphorically to describe any early morning meeting that is highly productive or strategically important, even if the participants are not traditionally "powerful" figures. * The project team had a power breakfast to kick off the planning phase with intense focus.
- Power lunch: A similar concept, but the meeting is held during the lunch hour.
- Working breakfast: A more neutral term for a breakfast meeting with a business agenda, which may not carry the same connotation of high-level influence.
- Business breakfast
- Executive breakfast meeting
- Working breakfast
While not a phrasal verb, the term itself is a fixed compound noun. The structure "power + [noun]" is common to denote events or activities associated with influential people or high-stakes situations (e.g., power lunch, power suit, power play).
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a meeting of influential people to conduct business while eating breakfast
