Meaning & use
quarate
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Meaning
adjectivenot comparableformalBritish
Having enough people present for a meeting to carry out business and make valid decisions.
Grammar: Either a meeting is quarate or it is not; it normally has no comparative form.
Patterns
- a quarate meeting
- become quarate
The meeting was not quarate, so the vote had to be postponed.
With the arrival of the treasurer, the committee became quarate at last.
Rules state that the board is quarate when five members are present.
Common combinations
- quarate meeting
- A quarate meeting can approve the accounts.
- remain quarate
- The panel remained quarate even after two members left.
- not quarate
- The council session was not quarate, so it was cancelled.
- become quarate
- The committee became quarate when a late member arrived.
Synonyms and how they differ
- valid
- Valid is a general word about acceptability, whereas quarate says specifically that enough attendees are present.
Opposites
Word family
- quorum noun
- the minimum number of members needed
- inquorate adjective
- lacking a quorum
Commonly confused: quarate or quorate?
quarate vs quorate
Quorate is the more common spelling for the same word; quarate is a frequent misspelling or variant.
Practice
The meeting could not make decisions because it was not ______.
Choose one answer.
Quarate means enough members are present to decide. Adjourned means paused, which would not explain why decisions were impossible.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “quarate”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.