call a meeting to order and call the meeting to order

call a/the meeting to order

To declare that a meeting is officially underway. You can still slip into the conference room—no one has called the meeting to order yet. Jack's running late, so he asked me to call the meeting to order. Is everyone here? Shall we call the meeting to order then?

See also: call, meeting, order, to

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call a meeting to order and call the meeting to order

to announce that a meeting is about to begin. The chair called the meeting to order. The meeting will be called to order at noon.

See also: and, call, meeting, order, to

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