touch base meeting

Meaning

1. 1nouncountableinformalbusiness

   A brief, informal meeting held to share updates and see how a project or person is doing.

   Grammar: Countable: schedule a touch base meeting, hold two touch base meetings.

   Patterns

   • a touch base meeting with someone
   • a touch base meeting about something

   Let's have a touch base meeting on Friday to see where we are.

   The team holds a touch base meeting every Monday morning.

   She asked for a quick touch base meeting before the launch.

Word forms

Common combinations

schedule a touch base meeting

I'll schedule a touch base meeting for next week.

quick touch base meeting

We had a quick touch base meeting after lunch.

weekly touch base meeting

The weekly touch base meeting takes only fifteen minutes.

set up a touch base meeting

Can you set up a touch base meeting with the client?

Synonyms and how they differ

check-in

A check-in is even shorter and more casual, and need not be a scheduled meeting.

catch-up

Catch-up sounds friendlier and less tied to work, while touch base meeting is office language.

status meeting

A status meeting focuses on formal progress reports, whereas a touch base meeting is lighter.

huddle

A huddle is a very short standing gathering of a small team, which is more urgent and compact.

Word family

touch base phrase

to make contact briefly

meeting noun

an occasion when people come together to talk

touch verb

to make contact

base noun

the starting point or foundation

Commonly confused: touch base meeting or kickoff meeting?

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