Business Vocab Old Vocabulary Revision

1. At the conclusion of each meeting the designated secretary will type up the ________ of the meeting and email them to all participants.

• minutes

• deliberations

• show of hands

• agenda

Answer explanation

Minutes mean the notes taken during the meeting!

2. The director was hoping his motion would get a _________ vote so that the project could get started quickly.

• ballot

• proxy

• unanimous

• collaborate

Answer explanation

Unanimous vote means everybody supports it.

To _________ means to come up with different ideas and suggestions until something good comes up.

• brainstorm

• deliberate

• wrap up

• motion

Answer explanation

Everyone is encouraged to come up with ideas, no matter how sophisticated and thought of they are

Although the meeting's _________ had already been set, the members agreed to introduce a new item that had only recently come up and required an urgent decision.

• ballot

• consensus

• minutes

• agenda

Answer explanation

Agenda is a list of items to be discussed at a meeting

Match the following business meeting words with their simpler meanings

• discuss to come up with a solution/idea

• agenda

• end the meeting

• adjourn

• list of things to be discussed

• brainstorm

• 100% for

• unanimous

• notes

• minutes