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Meeting request

Meaning in office & administration, with examples

nounCommon term

In office & administration, meeting request means: A calendar invitation or formal request asking one or more people to attend a meeting at a specific time.

In Turkish: toplantı daveti

How it is used

Common in email and calendar apps. It usually includes the subject, date, time, participants, location or link, and optional agenda.

Example sentences

  1. I declined the meeting request because it overlapped with a client call, then suggested two free time slots for Thursday.

    Here, the term means the schedulable invitation that can be accepted, declined, or answered with a proposed new time.

  2. Please add the budget spreadsheet before sending the meeting request to regional managers for next week's review.

    In this sentence, it refers to the formal calendar notice sent to attendees with supporting material.

Common collocations

  • send a meeting request
  • accept a meeting request
  • meeting request email
  • calendarA record of a person's or team's meetings, appointments and events, usually kept in software that colleagues can see and add meetings to.
  • availabilityThe times when a person is free to meet or work, or the fact that a room, product or service can still be used or booked.

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