Business Meetings Vocabulary

noun a arrangement to meet someone at a particular time and place

• Please remember to confirm your appointments with the receptionist before leaving.
• Don't forget to double-check your appointments with the front desk before you go.
• Make sure you lock in your appointments with the admin before you bounce.
• In life, our appointments with destiny are often unpredictable and mysterious.

verb a word that expresses an action or a state of being

preposition a word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence

• Please come back at 2 o'clock for your appointment.
• Hey, can you come back at 2 for your appointment?
• Yo, come back at 2 for your appointment, okay?
• Your success will come back at you if you work hard enough.

noun a minimum number of members required for a group to conduct business or hold a meeting

adjective related to or constituting a quorum

• The meeting cannot proceed without a quorum of at least 50% of the members present.
• We need at least half of the group to show up for the meeting to start.
• We can't start the meeting until we have enough people here.
• In order for the decision to be valid, we must have a sufficient number of participants present, known as a quorum.

noun a shortened form of 'face-to-face', referring to a meeting or interaction in person

• The company decided to hold a f2f meeting to discuss the new project.
• Let's have a quick f2f chat about the upcoming presentation.
• I prefer f2f communication over texting or emailing.
• In order to truly understand each other, we need to have a f2f conversation.