Veel organisaties zijn steeds meer internationaal georiënteerd. Een groeiend aantal bedrijven kiest zelfs het Engels als voortaal.
Als notulist kan -vroeg of laat- van je worden verwacht dat je Engelse notulen maakt. Om je alvast wat op weg te helpen een overzicht van de belangrijkste vergadertermen in het Engels.
| Ad hoc | A Latin phrase which means: 'for this purpose'. |
| Ad hoc meeting | A meeting called together for a special purpose. |
| Agenda | Programme of subjects to be discussed at a meeting. |
| Amendment | A motion moved to change the original motion being considered by a meeting. An amendment may propose an alternative/alteration to the existing motion by adding to, substituting or deleting words of a motion. Cannot be a direct negative to the original motion. |
| AOB (Any other business) | Point on the list of agenda allowing a participant to raise another point for discussion. |
| Board meeting | A meeting of the board of directors of an organization. One member of the group may be designated or elected to serve as chairperson and is referred to as: The chairman of the board. |
| Chair | Person who presides over a meeting. The chair conducts the meeting in general order and ensures smooth debate. |
| Committee | A type of small deliberative assembly that is subordinate to another deliberative assembly. |
| Consensus | General agreement. |
| To discharge | To release from obligations. |
| Hearing | In law a hearing is a proceeding before a court or other decision-making body or officer. A hearing is generally distinguished from a trial in that it is usually shorter and often less formal. |
| Minutes (or: Notes) | A written record of the proceedings of the meeting. |
| To take the minutes/notes | To make a written record of the meeting. |
| To confirm the minutes | To approve the minutes. |
| To enter in the minutes | To add to the minutes. |
| Motion | Proposal put to a meeting or assembly. |
| Paraphrasing | The act in which a statement or remark is explained in other words or another way. |
| Plenary | Attended by all members: 'A plenary meeting'. |
| Point of order | When there is believed to be an error in the procedure of a meeting, any member may take a "point of order". |
| Quorum | The minimum number of members of a body required to make a decision. |
| To quote | To repeat another’s words (in a written or an oral fragment). A quote is written between “quotation marks”. |
| Resolution | A written motion adopted by a deliberative body. The substance of the resolution can be anything that can normally be proposed as a motion. |
| Stakeholder | Originally a person who holds money or other property while its owner is being determined. |
| Standing orders | These are the rules of debate. |
| To tender | To offer to supply certain goods or to do certain work at a fixed rate. |
| Transcription | The conversion into written, typewritten or printed form, of a spoken language source, such as the proceedings of a court hearing. |
| Unanimity | Complete agreement by everyone. |
| Verbatim | As a linguistic term, "verbatim" means an exact reproduction of a sentence, phrase, quote or other sequence of text from one source into another. The same words appear in exactly the same order, with no paraphrasing substitution, or abbreviation of any kind, not even any trivial changes that wouldn't have affected the meaning anyway. |
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