Business Meeting Phrases

Are you searching for the most common Business Meeting Phrases and Vocabulary in English . Here is a list of the most used phrases for Opening a Meeting, Introducing the Meeting Agenda, Making your point, Commenting on Other Opinions, Agreeing and Disagreeing, Advising and Suggesting, Summarizing, and more.

Business Meeting Phrases and Vocabulary in English

Opening a Business Meeting Phrases

• Good morning/afternoon, everyone.
• Let’s begin, shall we?
• Shall we make a start?
• Let’s get down to business
• declare the meeting closed.
• The meeting is closed

Welcoming and Introducing Meeting Participants

• We’re pleased to welcome ……. – names of participants
• I’d like to introduce ……. – names of participants
• It’s a pleasure to welcome ……. – names of participants

Introducing the Meeting Agenda

• Have you all received a copy of the agenda?
• Shall we take the points in this order?
• There are three items on the agenda. First,…

Introducing the First Item on the Agenda

• So, the first item on the agenda is….
• Shall we start with. …
• So, let’s start with…

Objectives of a Meeting

• We’re here today to….
• The purpose of this meeting is to…..
• The main objective is to……
• I’ve called this meeting in order to …

Inviting people to speak at business meeting

• Would you like to open the discussion, Jim?
• What about you, Keith?
• What do you think about this, Jim
• What are your views on this, Jim

Business Meeting Phrases for Making your point

• Personally, I think ….
• In my opinion…..
• The way I see it…..
• It’s clear to me that ….
• Obviously….
• As I see it…….
• I believe…….

Moving Forward

• So, if there is nothing else we need to discuss, let’s move on to today’s agenda
• Shall we get down to business?

Meeting Agreeing

• You’re perfectly right.
• Exactly.
• Precisely.
• That’s true, I suppose.
• I suppose so.

Commenting on Other Opinions

• I see what you mean.
• I get your point.

Meeting Disagreeing

• I don’ t really agree
• That’s not really how I see it.
• I’m afraid I can’t agree with you there
• Well, I don’t know.
• Well, it depends

Business Meeting Phrases for Advising and Suggesting

• How/What about…
• I suggest/recommend that…
• We should…

Asking for Repetition

• I didn’t catch that. Could you repeat that, please?
• I missed that. Could you say it again, please?

Correcting Information

• I’m afraid you don’t understand what I’m saying.
• That’s not what I meant.

Closing an Item

• Shall we leave that item?
• I think that covers the first item.

Next Item

• The next item on the agenda is….
• Let’s move onto the next item…

Keeping the Meeting on Time

• I’m afraid we’ve run out of time.
• That’s not really why we’re here today.
• We’ll have to leave that to another time.
• Keep to the point, please.
• We’re beginning to lose sight of the main point.

Business Meeting Phrases for Summarizing

• Before we close, let me just summarize the main points.
• In brief,….
• To sum up, …

Thanking Meeting Participants for Attending

• Thank you all for coming.
• Thank you all for attending.
• Thanks for your participation.

Suggesting and Agreeing on Time and Place for the Next Meeting

• So, the next meeting will be on … (day), the . . . (date) of.. . (month) at …
• Can we set the date for the next meeting, please?
  Closing the Meeting