单词 | quorate |
释义 | quorateadj. Of a meeting or its members: having a quorum in attendance (quorum n. 4).Earliest as second element in non-quorate. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [adjective] > types of meeting fullOE panegyric1603 panegyricala1617 sit-down1875 quorate1893 plenary1907 inquorate1974 1893 W. E. Gladstone Diary 23 Jan. (1994) XIII. 190 Irish Finance. (Aftn.) (Non quorate). Scheme considered & adopted. 1969 PI (University College London, Students' Union) 20 Oct. 3/2 Even barely quorate General Meetings could be dominated by an organised minority. 1971 J. Henderson Copperhead xv. 192 This meeting is now closed. We're quorate without you. 1985 D. Lucie Progress ii. ii, in Fashion, Progress, Hard Feelings, Doing the Business (1991) 148 We shouldn't be having this discussion. We're not quorate and we haven't got a chairperson. 1990 Banking World Dec. 70/2 There will therefore only remain the question as to whether the exercise of that delegated power was carried out at a quorate meeting of the board of directors. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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