Word combinations with meeting

Word combinations with «meeting»

В современном мире практически ни одна компания не обходится без проведения деловых встреч. Как сказать, что совещание прошло продуктивно или наоборот, время было потрачено впустую? В этой статье разберем основные понятия, без которых невозможно ни одно рабочее собрание.

“Meeting” is defined as an assembly of people for a particular purpose, especially one that involves formal discussion. This is what happens in every company to discuss all matters concerning the company. It can be about employee performance, latest projects, or monthly revenues. It is therefore imperative to know which words collocate with it naturally. Here are some word combinations with the word “meeting”:

Set up/ arrange/ fix a meeting — организовать деловую встречу

  Setting up meetings will be one of your responsibilities.
  Одной из ваших обязанностей будет организация совещаний.

Postpone/ put back a meeting — отложить совещание 

  The meeting has been postponed due to fire alarm.
  Совещание отложили из-за пожарной тревоги.

Bring forward — перенести совещание на более ранний срок

  The meeting was originally fixed for the 7th, but has been brought forward to the 2nd.
  Изначально собрание было назначено на 7-ое, но затем было перенесено на 2-ое.

Сancel a meeting — отменить совещание

  The meeting was cancelled because the manager got sick.
  Совещание отменили, потому что управляющий заболел.

Аttend a meeting — присутствовать на общем собрании

  You can’t possibly avoid attending this meeting!
  У тебя не получится избежать этого совещания!

Miss a meeting — пропустить совещание

  He missed a meeting because he was stuck in a traffic jam.
  Он пропустил общее собрание, потому что застрял в пробке.

Chair a meeting — возглавить совещание

  Debby will chair the next meeting although she’s not quite ready for it.
  Дебби возглавит следующее совещание, хотя она не вполне к этому не готова.

Of course, a meeting can be judged based on its quality and therefore may be described as productive or a waste of time. As for the actual proceedings, phrases such as the following may be used:

Cover a lot of ground — рассмотреть большое количество вопросов

  We managed to cover a lot of ground despite lack of time.
  Несмотря на нехватку времени, у нас получилось обсудить большое количество вопросов.

Wandering off the point — отклоняться от темы

  We were discussing issues related to our business but he kept wandering off the point as if he didn’t want to talk about it.
  Мы обсуждали проблемы, связанные с нашей компанией, но он продолжал отклоняться от темы как будто он вообще не хотел об этом разговаривать.

Too many digressions — слишком много отступлений от темы

  Even though there were too many digressions in today’s meeting, it was a successful one.
  Невзирая на то, что сегодня на совещании было слишком много отступлений от темы, встреча была успешной.

The success of a meeting all depends on the participants. If everybody sees eye-to-eye and everything in the agenda is discussed, then you can proudly say it’s a successful meeting. So, good luck with the next one you have and hope everything goes well.

Introduction

Do you want to learn about the different types of meeting, what word combination we can use with the word ‘meeting’, especially verbs we can use with it, and finally how to express your opinion of how a meeting goes? You will learn all about these things in this new Business English Episode from English Plus Podcast.

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Word Combinations with ‘meeting’

• What if you want to organize a meeting. what verbs do you use?
  You say arrange, set up or fix a meeting.
• What if you want to make a meeting earlier than originally decided?
  You say bring forward a meeting.
• What if you want to make a meeting later than originally planned?
  You say put back, put off or postpone a meeting.
• What if you decide not to have a meeting?
  You call off or cancel a meeting.
• What if are in charge of a meeting?
  You run or chair a meeting.
• What if you go to a meeting?
  You attend a meeting.
• What if you don’t go to a meeting?
  You miss a meeting.

Types of Meeting

• What do you want to have an informal discussion with colleagues at the coffee machine? It’s still a type of meeting, but what do you call that type of meeting?
  You call that a chat (meeting).
• What if you want to meet with colleagues and the purpose of this meeting is to produce as many ideas as possible just to evaluate the ideas later, what do you call that type of meeting?
  You call that a brainstorming.
• What if the meeting includes employees involved in a particular activity or project?
  You call that a project or a team meeting.
• What if it gets a little bigger than that and it involves everyone in the department?
  You call that a department or departmental meeting.
• What if you want to meet with suppliers to negotiate prices for an order, for example?
  Well that’s straightforward. It’s called a meeting with suppliers.
• What about meeting with a customer to discuss a contract, for example?
  This is just the same thing. It’s called meeting with a customer.
• What about the big meeting, the very formal one of a company’s directors?
  This is is called a board meeting.
• What about the meeting when shareholders discuss the company’s annual report?
  Well, in the US, they call this meeting the annual meeting, but the UK, they call it the AGM – The annual general meeting.
• What about when shareholders meet to discuss an important issue such as a proposed merger of some crisis, and it is not the regular AGM?
  Well, this is called the EGM – the extraordinary general meeting.

How Was the Meeting?

Based on the effectiveness of the meeting and of course the personal opinion of people, there might be different opinions on how the meeting went. Here are some examples of what people may say after a meeting.

I thought it was very productive.

this is positive feedback saying that you have achieved a lot in the meeting.

Well, I thought it was a waste of time. I heard nothing I didn’t already know.

This is negative feedback you can say when you believe the meeting has achieved nothing.

I felt we had some very useful discussions. We certainly covered a lot of ground. We got through an incredible number of things.

This is positive feedback. You mean the meeting has achieved a lot and you handled or discussed a lot of the issues you want to discuss.

As usual, John was rambling and kept wandering off the point. He just uses meetings as a chance to show off.

This is negative feedback. You are talking about a particular person who wasted time talking about irrelevant things just to show off.

The chair really kept things moving – she encouraged people to stick to the point by keeping things brief.

This is posisitve feedback saying the the char ran the meeting successfully by not letting people wander off the point and also by keeping the meeting as short as possible.