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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.