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.
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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.
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