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Quorum   /kwˈɔrəm/   Listen
Quorum

noun
1.
A gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business.





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"Quorum" Quotes from Famous Books



... would sit for several days—as long as necessary—to complete the County's business. A quorum of the total panel of appointed justices was necessary to conduct the court, but this number generally was small enough so that no hardship was suffered by those who had to leave their private concerns. ...
— The Fairfax County Courthouse • Ross D. Netherton
... to pass a law a majority vote in the Bundesrat and Reichstag is sufficient if there is a quorum present, and a quorum is a majority of the members elected in the Reichstag: in the Bundesrat the quorum consists of such members as are present at a regularly called meeting, providing the Chancellor or ...
— My Four Years in Germany • James W. Gerard
... [Monumenta Germaniae historica, Scriptorum, t. 16], ad ann. 1237. Among the comprehensive pictures of the situation of the Church in the thirteenth century, there is none more interesting than that left us by the Cardinal Jacques de Vitry in his Historia occidentalis: Libri duo quorum prior Orientalis, alter Occidentalis historiae nomine inscribitur Duaci, ...
— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier


Words linked to "Quorum" :   organisation, minyan, gathering, assemblage, organization


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