EGM

Meanings

1. 1abbreviationcountablebusinessBritish

   An extraordinary general meeting: a meeting of a company's shareholders or a group's members called outside the usual schedule.

   Grammar: Countable, so it takes a/an and a plural: an EGM, two EGMs.

   Patterns

   • call an EGM
   • hold an EGM
   • at an EGM

   The board called an EGM to vote on the takeover.

   Shareholders packed the hall for the EGM after the profit warning.

   Only an EGM can change the club's rules between annual meetings.

2. 2abbreviationcountablebusinessBritish

   Used in writing to refer to the meeting itself as an event on a schedule or in a report.

   Grammar: Often appears in diaries and minutes with a date: 'EGM, 3 p.m.'

   Patterns

   • the EGM on Friday
   • minutes of the EGM

   The minutes of the EGM were approved at the next board meeting.

   She put the EGM in her diary for the tenth of May.

Word forms

Common combinations

call an EGM

The chair decided to call an EGM after three directors resigned.

hold an EGM

They held an EGM in the hotel conference room.

attend an EGM

Every shareholder is entitled to attend an EGM.

convene an EGM

Under the rules, the president must convene an EGM within twenty days.

an emergency EGM

An emergency EGM was arranged for the following morning.

Synonyms and how they differ

special meeting

A more general and usually American term for any meeting arranged outside the normal timetable.

general meeting

This is the broader category; an EGM is the unscheduled kind, as opposed to the AGM.

shareholders' meeting

Focuses on who attends rather than on whether the meeting is regular or special.

Opposites

Word family

AGM abbreviation

Annual general meeting, the regular yearly meeting of members or shareholders.

GM abbreviation

General meeting, the general term covering both AGMs and EGMs.

Commonly confused: EGM or AGM?

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