Business Jargon: Jargon for meetings

会议行话:会议专用术语

Learning English For Work

2025-12-15

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Ever been in a meeting and had no idea what people were talking about? Pippa and Phil talk about business jargon used during meetings from touch base to circle back. This episode was originally broadcast in October 2024. TRANSCRIPT Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/business-jargon/241028 FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/newsletters LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ 6 Minute English ✔️ Learning English from the News ✔️ Learning English Stories They're all available by searching in your podcast app.
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  • Thanks for listening to Learning English for Work.

  • We're busy making new episodes for the new year.

  • In the meantime,

  • we thought you'd enjoy this programme from 2024 all about business jargon and the strange phrases we use at work.

  • Hello and welcome to Learning English for Work and our series all about business jargon.

  • I'm Phil.

  • And I'm Pippa.

  • We're on a quest to understand business jargon, how it works and when to use it.

  • You can find a transcript for this episode on our website bbclearningenglish.com.

  • In the last episode, we explored what jargon is and some opinions about it.

  • So listen back to that if you missed it.

  • But in this episode, we're going to talk through some more jargon, what it means and how to use it.

  • That's right.

  • And today's jargon is all jargon that you might hear in a meeting at work.

  • Pippa, do you hear a lot of jargon in meetings?

  • Well, when you have a formal meeting at work, there can be lots of jargon terms.

  • So you have the agenda.

  • That's kind of the list of what you're going to talk about.

  • You have the minutes sometimes.

  • So somebody might take notes and that's called the minutes.