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Definition: Quorum |
QuorumNoun1. A gathering of members of an organization large enough to transact business. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quorum" was first used: 1426. (references) |
Etymology: Quorum \Quo"rum\, noun. [Latin expression, of whom, general plural of qui who, akin to English who. See the Note below.]. (references) |
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Satire | QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the United States Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House; in the House of Representatives, of the Speaker and the devil. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | A clumsy individual, all Ayes and Noes, who is seldom on hand when needed. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Finance | The minimum number of people who must be present(physically or by proxy)at a shareholders'meeting in order for a decision to be binding. Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | The number of Members whose presence is required to conduct business. A quorum in the House is a majority of the Members (218). A quorum in the Committee of the Whole is 100 Members. A quorum is presumed to be present until its absence is demonstrated. Under certain circumstances, a point of order can be made that a quorum is not present, at which time the Speaker (or Chair) counts for a quorum. If a quorum is not present, Members may be summoned to the floor. If a quorum fails to respond to the call, the only business in order is a motion to adjourn or a motion to direct the Sergeant-at-Arms to request the attendance of absentees. (references) |
| A simple majority of the members of the full committee or the full Assembly or Senate; the minimum number of legislators needed to begin conducting official business. Once a quorum is established, the absence of a quorum is grounds for immediate adjournment of a committee hearing or Floor Session. (references) | |
Literature | Quorum Such a number of persons as are necessary to make up a committee or board; or certain justices without the presence of whom the rest cannot act. Thus, suppose the commission to be named A, B, C, D, E, etc., it would run- "Of these I wish [A, B, C, D, or E] to be one" (quorum unum esse volumus). These honoured names are called "Justices of the Quorum." Slender calls Justice Shallow justice of the peace and quorum. (Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 1.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A quorum is the minimum number of members of a group necessary to conduct the business of that group. This is often a majority of the people expected to be there, although many bodies have a much lower quorum. For instance, the House of Lords can decide on procedural issues if a mere three members are present.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Quorum."
Synonym: QuorumSynonym: Legislative procedure. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agent | Phrase: quorum pars magna fui; faber est quisque fortunae suae. |
Council | Assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house; quorum; council fire, powwow, primary. |
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Crosswords: Quorum |
| English words defined with "quorum": To count out, Trial at bar. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "quorum": ANGLICIZED WORDS ♦ en banc ♦ Lady Magistrate ♦ Quorum Call. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Quorum" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (quorum), German (quorum), Hungarian (quorum), Italian (quorum), Latin (all that, any, anyone, anything that, dangers, everyone who, half OF WHICH was ill, nisi, numquid, OF WHICH there were not a few, of whom, quorum, some, someone, something, the army, what, what kind of, what man, what thing, whatever, which, which one, who), Portuguese (quorum). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Quorum (1987) | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | At ego cum plurima animo perlustrem, duo tantum invenio, duos, inquam, casus quibus rex ipso facto ex rege non regem se facit & omni honore & dignitate regali atque in subditos potestate destituit; quorum etiam meminit Winzerus. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-1992 | But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. (reference) |
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Civil Liberties | Egypt | If such a quorum is unattainable, the judiciary may appoint a caretaker board until new elections can be scheduled. (references) |
Egypt | Failing a quorum, a second election must be held in which at least 30 percent of the membership votes for the board. (references) | |
Guatemala | However, the lack of a legal quorum in Congress raised the question whether the ruling FRG party would be able to approve the President's decree. (references) | |
Economic History | Korea | Legally, Korean board meetings require the physical presence of all members as well as a quorum of the directors. (references) |
Vanuatu | The prime minister, who is the head of government, is elected by a majority vote of a three-fourths quorum of the Parliament. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Nine members of the House of Peoples constitutes a quorum, provided that at least three delegates from each group are present. (references) | |
Human Rights | Peru | Their removal had deprived the court of a quorum to rule on constitutional issues and paralyzed the court. (references) |
Peru | By year's end, Congress had removed one of the seven Tribunal members on corruption charges and the Tribunal was at times unable to reach the required six-member quorum. (references) | |
Political Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | The lack of a quorum caused by the vacancies also prevented the selection of Croat members of the national-level House of Peoples. (references) |
Worker Rights | Slovak Republic | In July 2000, the Railway Workers, with the support of the International Labor Organization (ILO), appealed to the Government to amend the Act on Collective Bargaining to lower the quorum of employees necessary for the declaration of a strike and to eliminate the requirement that a list of employees participating in a strike be provided to the employer. (references) |
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John Adams | 1797-1801 | Any seven or nine of the legislative council may be made a quorum, for doing business as a privy council, to advise the governor in the exercise of the executive branch of power, and in all acts of state. |
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| "Quorum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.54% of the time. "Quorum" is used about 97 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 84.54% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.43% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (common) | 1.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 97 | N/A |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Quorum Health Group, Inc. |
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Expressions using "quorum": form a quorum ♦ make a quorum ♦ quorum pars magna fui. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "quorum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kuorum. (various references) | |
Arabic | نصاب قانوني, نخبة (elite, flower). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кворум. (various references) | |
Chinese | 法定人数. (various references) | |
Czech | kvorum. (various references) | |
Danish | quorum, beslutningsdygtigt flertal, beslutningsdygtigt antal. (various references) | |
Dutch | quorum. (various references) | |
Finnish | quorum, päätösvaltaisuus, päätösvaltainen jäsenluku. (various references) | |
French | quorum. (various references) | |
German | Quorum. (various references) | |
Greek | απαρτία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ ין (from where, number, score, vote, whence), רוב חוקי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | quorum, határozatképességhez szükséges legkisebb szám, határozatképességhez szükséges legkisebb létszám, határozatképesség. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kuorum. (various references) | |
Italian | quorum. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 定足数 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ていそくすう. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orumquay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quorum. (various references) | |
Romanian | cvorum. (various references) | |
Russian | кворум. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zakonski dovoljan broj članova, kvorum. (various references) | |
Spanish | quórum. (various references) | |
Swedish | beslutsmässigt antal. (various references) | |
Thai | องค์ประกอบ (organisation, organization). (various references) | |
Turkish | yeterli çoğunluk (working majority), nisap, gerekli çoğunluk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кворум. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | quorum. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 2, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Wn ai triboi skoliai kai kampulai ai trociai autwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quorum viae perversae et infames gressus eorum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Of whom the weies shreude, and yuel losid the goingys of hem. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil: |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 2, Verse 15 |
| Cebuano | Nga mga baliko sa ilang mga dalan, Ug mga sukwahi sa ilang mga alagianan: |
| Croatian | kojih su staze krive i koji su opaki na svojim putovima; |
| Danish | de, som går krogede Stier og følger bugtede Spor - |
| Dutch | Welker paden verkeerd zijn, en afwijkende in hun sporen; |
| Finnish | joiden polut ovat mutkaiset ja jotka joutuvat väärään teillänsä. - |
| French | Qui suivent des sentiers détournés, Et qui prennent des routes tortueuses; |
| German | welche ihren Weg verkehren und folgen ihrem Abwege; |
| Hungarian | A kiknek ösvényeik görbék, és a kik az õ útaikban gonoszok. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka curang dan cara hidup mereka serong. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | yang terbalik-balik jalannya dan bengkang-bengkok segala alurannya; |
| Italian | i cui sentieri sono tortuosi e le cui strade sono oblique, |
| Maori | He ara kopikopiko o ratou, he whanoke ratou i o ratou huarahi: |
| Norwegian | som går på krokete stier og følger vrange veier. |
| Portuguese | dos que são tortuosos nas suas veredas; e iníquos nas suas carreiras; |
| Rumanian | cari umblq pe cqrqri strkmbe, wi apucq pe drumuri sucite; |
| Russian | ЛПФПТЩИ ХФЙ ЛТЙЧЩ, Й ЛПФПТЩЕ 'МХЦ"БАФ ОБ УФЕЪСИ УЧПЙИ; |
| Spanish | cuyos senderos son torcidos y perversos sus caminos. |
| Swedish | från dem som gå på krokiga stiga och vandra på förvända vägar. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "quorum": quorums. (additional references) | |
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"Quorum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: corrum, corum, korum, numorum, Qaruh, qourum, qourun, Quadrum, quarium, quarm, quarum, querm, Quirm, quoorum, quora, quoram, quore, quorim, quorm, quorom, Quotron, quou, qu'ran, quroum, qurum, ruoru. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "quorum" (pronounced kwô"rum) |
| 4 | -ô" r u m | Aurum, decorum, forum. |
| 3 | -r u m | angstrom, arum, pilgrim, conundrum, durum, fulcrum, harem, maelstrom, rostrum, serum, spectrum, tantrum, theorem. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "m-o-q-r-u-u" | |
-3 letters: mor, our, rom, rum. | |
-4 letters: mo, mu, om, or, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "m-o-q-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: quorums. | |
+4 letters: humoresque. | |
+5 letters: humoresques. | |
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