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Summarize

Meaning in business english, with examples

verbCore term

In business english, summarize means: To give the main points of something in a shorter form without including every detail.

In Turkish: özetlemek

How it is used

Used in meetings, reports, articles, and presentations. Often follows discussion or reading when key points need to be shared clearly and briefly.

Example sentences

  1. At the end of the workshop, Luis summarized the three risks that could delay the software rollout in June.

    Here the verb means selecting the most important risks from a longer discussion and presenting them briefly.

  2. Please summarize the article in two paragraphs for the leadership team, focusing on supply chain impacts.

    In this reading task, the word means reducing a longer text to essential information for a specific audience.

Common collocations

  • summarize the discussion
  • summarize the findings
  • briefly summarize
  • summarize key points
  • recapA short summary of the main points of a meeting, call or discussion, given at the end or sent afterwards. Also used as a verb.
  • wrap upTo finish a meeting, discussion or piece of work, usually by summarizing the main points and agreeing on the next steps.

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