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Quarsom/e Does it exist in English?

  • 15-01-2012 10:28PM
    #1
    odds_on
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭


    I was just writing something and MS word marked it as incorrect. I then searched the internet and still find the word. Maybe, I've got the spelling wrong but I don't think so.

    I thought that a quarsom (qarsome) was a group of four prople. However, I cannot find it in an on-line dictionary.

    From my school days (many, many years ago, I think i was taught that "a quarsom of directors of a company/club was require before a meeting was legal". i.e. four directors were needed.

    Anyone else know of this word?


Comments

  • #2
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    Have you combined Quartet and Foursome by any chance?


  • #3
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,441 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Quorum


  • #4
    odds_on
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭odds_on


    PseudoFamous wrote: »
    Have you combined Quartet and Foursome by any chance?

    It looks like it may be that combination but as far as I can remember it was used as a "business" or legal word.


  • #5
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    endacl wrote: »
    Quorum

    That's just the minimum number of people needed to take part in a vote for it to be valid and representative of the majority, isn't it?

    EDIT: Fits OPs description other than the four people thing. A-whoops.


  • #6
    born2bwild
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭born2bwild


    Quorum.


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  • #7
    odds_on
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭odds_on


    That's it folks,
    Quorum

    How old age affects the memory. Many thanks.


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