guinea pig director

English

Noun

guinea pig director (plural guinea pig directors)

  1. (dated, colloquial) A company director (usually one holding a number of directorships) who serves merely or mainly for the fee (in England, often a guinea) paid for attendance.
    • 1858 May 8, Herapath's Railway Journal, page 491:
      We wish all men were equally conscientious, and we should get rid of that useless animal, the guinea-pig Director—a greater abomination to good management than which does not exist.
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