boiler room 的定义
- a room in a building, ship, etc., that houses one or more steam boilers.
- Slang. a place where illicit brokers engage in high-pressure selling, over the telephone, of securities of a highly speculative nature or of dubious value.any room or business where salespeople, bill collectors, solicitors for charitable donations, etc., conduct an intensive telephone campaign, especially in a fast-talking or intimidating manner.
boiler room 近义词
等同于 con game
等同于 confidence game
等同于 bucket shop
boiler room 的近义词 1 个
更多boiler room例句
- Her photographs include cheerily decorated lounges, repurposed office spaces, prefabricated lactation pods, boiler rooms, restaurant basements, cafeterias, bathrooms, trains, and pop-up tents.
- Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.
- One day he and some of his roommates were cleaning their room and one of the guys threw the dustpan out into the hall.
- Marvin and I leave the poolside and go into his dining room.
- The resources were what you might expect: Dining room, a media center, a library, a TV room, a meeting room, a computer room.
- Barry showed me his room—a one bedroom with a killer view of Riverbank State Park and the Hudson.
- The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
- In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
- Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
- His lordship retired shortly to his study, Hetton and Mr. Haggard betook themselves to the billiard-room.
- When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.