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Circulate a report

Meaning in business english, with examples

phraseCommon term

In business english, circulate a report means: To send or share a report with a group of people so they can read it.

In Turkish: bir raporu dağıtıma çıkarmak

How it is used

Used in offices for email distribution or internal sharing. Often involves managers, stakeholders, or teams who need the document before a meeting or decision.

Example sentences

  1. Before the board meeting, Nina circulated the report to department heads so they could review the cost trends in advance.

    Here the phrase means sending the document to several people ahead of time so discussion can start from shared information.

  2. The analyst forgot to circulate a report after updating the figures, which left sales and finance working from different versions.

    In this case, the phrase refers to controlled document sharing, and failing to do it caused inconsistency between teams.

Common collocations

  • circulate a report internally
  • circulate a report by email
  • circulate the final report
  • CCShort for carbon copy: the email field for people who should see a message for information but are not expected to act on it. Also used as a verb.
  • attachmentA file, such as a document, spreadsheet or image, that is sent together with an email message.

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