quorum
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The minimum number of members required to be present for a meeting's business to be validly transacted.
The resolution was void because no quorum was present when the vote was taken.
Business noun
The minimum number of members who must be present for a meeting's decisions to be valid.
Two directors dialed in late, so we didn't have a quorum to approve the resolution.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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