power lunch en · NOUN
Etymology
Coined by American editor and author Lee Eisenberg in 1979, in the Esquire article America’s Most Powerful Lunch.
Meanings
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(idiomatic) A working lunch at which bosses make business decisions or hold important discussions.
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.
2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| power lunches | Number=Plur | lexicographic |