thinktank

See also: think tank, Thinktank, think-tank, Think-tank, and Think-Tank

English

Noun

thinktank (plural thinktanks)

1. Alternative spelling of think tank

Verb

thinktank (third-person singular simple present thinktanks, present participle thinktanking, simple past and past participle thinktanked)

1. Alternative form of think-tank
   • 1976, Grant Venn, Man, Education and Society, page 126:

     Each state should devote some resources and some joint efforts to ' 'thinktanking' ' the implications of change in society as it affects education and the role of the state.

   • 1992, George Ngwane, Fragments of Unity: (to Every Son and Daughter of the South West), page 22:

     SWELA may turn out to be an Intellectual Association where brainstorming and thinktanking are the rule of the day while mass implementation and task execution become the exception of the night.

   • 2011, Roberg Silverberg, The Ultimate Dinosaur, →ISBN:

     Today marks the beginning of a wonderful innovationary experiment in education, a whole new instructional dynamic in teaching paleontology. I'll be thinktanking with you dinosaur guys and gals next week, but until then I want you to think about one word."