quorum

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  1. noun The minimal number of officers and members of a committee or organization, usually a majority, who must be present for valid transaction of business.
  2. noun A select group.

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  • In order 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 the Vice-Chancellor attends. —  My Four Years in Germany
  • When the prep was done and the quorum was assembled in the ninth-floor jury room one flight above me, Mercer and I led our witnesses up to the waiting room. —  Death Dance - Fairstein
  • McMaster handed down his opinion last month, concluding that a quorum is a simple majority of the body - which in the case of the delegation would be seven members. —  news | SJ | http://www.goupstate.com
  • In the past, the senate has been viewed as ineffectual, often unable to meet quorum, which is the minimum number of members needed to conduct the business of the group. —  Daily Vanguard RSS
  • The meeting started at 11: 02 a.m. when a quorum was reached. —  Jamaica Gleaner Online
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  1. Middle English, quorum of justices of the peace, from Latin quōrum, of whom (from the wording of a commission naming certain persons as members of a body), genitive pl. of quī, who; see kwo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also corum; from Latin quorum, ‘of whom,’ genitive plural of qui, who: see who. In commissions, etc., written in Latin. it was common, after mentioning certain persons generally, to specify one or more as always to be included, in such phrases as quorum unum A. B. esse volumus (of whom we will that A. B. be one); such persons as were to be in all cases necessary therefore constituted a quorum.
 

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