National Enterprise Board

noun

1. a public corporation established in 1975 to help the economy of the UK. In 1981 it merged with the National Research and Development Council to form the British Technology Group NEB

Example Sentences

Eventually the company was taken over by Labour's National Enterprise Board and split up.

From BBC

During his final years at Chloride, Edwardes, then living in London, was appointed to the National Enterprise Board, a government body set up to revitalize British industry.

From Seattle Times

ICL had originally been supported through the National Enterprise Board, but then the government sold its share.

From The Guardian

At its last party conference, Labor had proposed to set up a National Enterprise Board that might take over key industries and to hold a country-wide vote on whether Britain should stay in the Common Market.

From Time Magazine Archive

Callaghan's left-wing Energy Secretary, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, proposes instead to use North Sea revenues to raise the budget of the National Enterprise Board to $1.9 billion a year, more than triple the present figure.

From Time Magazine Archive