Learn How to Pronounce QUORUM – QUORUM in a Sentence
Learn how to pronounce QUORUM correctly by understanding the syllables. Then see an illustrated sentence example.
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QUORUM – it’s a noun with 2 syllables.
Stress the 1st syllable. It is pronounced:
KWOR◦uM
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QUORUM
Definition: The minimal number of members of a committee or organization who must be present for business decisions and transactions.
The clipart shows a business meeting in progress.
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In the picture we see four business people before a meeting.
The sentence example reads: As they had already waited for 30 minutes and no one else had come, they decided to call the meeting off as the quorum had not been met.
In other words, the four members who came for the meeting decided to cancel it as the minimum number of persons legally necessary to hold the meeting were not present.
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Examples of QUORUM from news items:
The center-right abstained outright in the voting, a tactic to maintain the bloc’s unity that drew swift rebukes from other party leaders because it meant the quorum wasn’t reached.
Source: Seattle Times
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/new-italy-president-still-elusive-after-4th-round-of-voting/
Its monetary-policy committee was unable to meet as scheduled on January 22nd-23rd because it lacked the six members necessary for a quorum.
Source: Economist
https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21735620-nigeria-extreme-example-can-it-manage-without-them-monetary-policy-suffers
GOP members could boycott a committee vote to advance a nominee, thus denying a quorum — a maneuver that Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee employed last week, delaying five Federal Reserve nominees.
Source: Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/21/durbin-biden-supreme-court/
Without Clyburn or some other Democrat, the FCC would not meet its three-member quorum, preventing it from acting on certain policy issues — including, perhaps, net neutrality.
Source: The Verge
https://www.recode.net/2017/6/14/15799218/trump-jessica-rosenworcel-fcc
Recently, its investments have been smaller because the Export-Import Bank — the official U.S. export credit agency — has been prevented from funding fossil fuel projects overseas because it lacks a quorum.
Source: Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-agrees-to-end-fossil-fuel-financing-abroad/
If you are interested in how to pronounce QUORUM, be sure to check other words in The Punctuation Guide such as:
How to Pronounce TENURE – TENURE in a Sentence
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