Quick Vocabulary & Pronunciation — Meetings

Eight words for international meetings. Tap a card to see the meaning and an example, and press the speaker to hear it.

to chair a meeting

to lead it and manage who speaks

Elena is chairing the call this month.

to park

to put a topic aside and come back to it later

Let’s park that and come back to it at the end of the call.

to overlap

to happen during the same period of time

Our working hours only overlap for two hours a day.

action point

something somebody has agreed to do

Every action point needs a name and a date next to it.

to catch up

to reach the same level of information as others

I missed the call, can you help me catch up?

to talk over someone

to speak while another person is still speaking

Sorry, I talked over you, please finish.

to follow up

to check afterwards that something happened

I will follow up with the London office on Thursday.

handover

the passing of work or information from one person to another

The handover between the two shifts happens at nine.