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quorum

[kwawr-uhm, kwohr-] / ˈkwɔr əm, ˈkwoʊr- /
NOUN
majority
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The meeting has to take place before 31 December as per reports, after the previous one was adjourned for lack of quorum, but no new date has yet been announced.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Many commissions cannot conduct business without a quorum of a simple majority of commissioners.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

The EAC has been without a quorum before.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

A lack of quorum in some weeks was a factor in the commission canceling roughly a third of its meetings last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

Without a proper quorum of members, the king could then decide law as he pleased.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Both boards lost their quorums and could no longer act.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026

Experts agree that while other independent agencies have gone without board quorums, none has faced the impending scenario of the merit board.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2019

They convened in caucus meetings and hallway quorums that became commiseration sessions.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2016

Such occasions featuring legislative quorums outside the Capitol are rare but not unprecedented.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2014

As the quorums in the case of both Houses are half the total membership, any further sittings were thus made impossible.

From The Fight For The Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale


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