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Thread

Meaning in business english, with examples

/θred/nounCommon term

In business english, thread means: A series of emails or chat messages that reply to each other on the same subject and are grouped together.

In Turkish: yazışma zinciri, e-posta dizisi, mesaj dizisi

How it is used

Common in email and chat tools such as Slack and Teams: 'See the thread below', 'Reply in the thread', 'I've added Sam to the thread'. When a thread gets long and hard to follow, someone usually sends a short summary.

Example sentences

  1. I've added Leyla to this thread because she handles the Spanish accounts.

  2. The details are further down the thread, in Tom's email from Monday.

Common collocations

  • email thread
  • reply in the thread
  • add someone to the thread
  • start a thread
  • long thread
  • reply allTo answer an email so that your reply goes to the sender and to everyone else who received the original message, including people in CC.
  • loop inTo include someone in an email, conversation or project so that they are informed and can follow what is happening.
  • forwardTo send an email or message that you have received to another person, often with a short comment of your own.
  • inboxThe folder in an email program where new messages arrive; also used to mean all the emails waiting for your attention.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

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