Definitions

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  • noun A consolidated governing board set up in place of several lesser boards.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ board

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Examples

  • It started with the creation of Alberta Health Services, the province-wide "superboard," and moved on from there to the increasing disquiet of the province's voters.

    Progressive Bloggers Alberta Diary 2010

  • Australian economist is new head of Alberta health 'superboard'

    CBC | Top Stories News 2009

  • First, word leaked out this morning in an extremely prominently displayed newspaper story that Alberta's politically generated health care "superboard" is going broke so fast it won't be able to afford band-aids or Q-tips by February.

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • He said the recent centralization of all regions under one superboard means a physician who loses privileges in one region has nowhere to turn.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2011

  • Barnitz said he voted against the bill because he thinks it does not adequately explain the powers of what he called the "superboard."

    Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles Trevor Eischen 2010

  • The Health Services superboard is crumbling and his reputation is crumbling with it.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed DEAN BENNETT 2010

  • However, there are no plans to follow Alberta's lead by reducing the number of health regions and creating one health superboard in Saskatchewan, he added.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2010

  • But before the Alberta Health Services superboard took over, the health regions got a last report card on their emergency rooms.

    Edmonton Sun 2010

  • "This is the latest twist on what is really an old story which is the gradual accumulation of resistance to antibiotics that we see in bacteria," said Dr. Mark Joffe, senior medical director of infection, prevention and control for Alberta's health superboard.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • "This is the latest twist on what is really an old story which is the gradual accumulation of resistance to antibiotics that we see in bacteria," said Dr. Mark Joffe, senior medical director of infection, prevention and control for Alberta's health superboard.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

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