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Meeting room

Meaning in office & administration, with examples

nounCore term

In office & administration, meeting room means: A room in an office used for meetings, usually with a table, chairs and a screen, which staff book in advance.

In Turkish: toplantı odası, toplantı salonu

How it is used

Usually booked through a shared calendar or booking system. Many offices give rooms names ("the Bosphorus room"). A large formal room is often called the boardroom; conference room is common in American English.

Example sentences

  1. All the meeting rooms are booked this afternoon. Could we do the call from your desk?

  2. Please leave the meeting room tidy and wipe the whiteboard when you finish.

Common collocations

  • book a meeting room
  • meeting room booking
  • small meeting room
  • the meeting room is free
  • bookTo arrange and reserve something in advance, such as a meeting room, a flight, a hotel room, a table or a person's time.
  • agendaA list of the topics to be discussed at a meeting, in the order they will be discussed, usually sent to participants beforehand.
  • double-bookedHaving two meetings or appointments arranged for the same time, or describing a room reserved for two groups at once by mistake.
  • 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.

This word in other fields

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