【Business Conversation-41】Setting Up a Meeting (召開會議 )

Setting Up a Meeting (召開會議 )
A : let's arrange a meeting for next week
B : sounds good. how about Tuesday at 11:00 a.m.
A : 11:00 works for me. Shall we meet in my office?
B : how about a lunch meeting?
A : even better. Let's meet at the restaurant across the street
B : we can negotiate our business contract then
【Biz Vocab】商用英文單字 ( 點擊左邊箭頭打開釋義+例句 ) arrange /əˈreɪndʒ/ v. 安排 to plan , prepare for, or organize something:
I'm trying to arrange my work so that I can have a couple of days off next week .
The meeting has been arranged for Wednesday .
[ + to infinitive ] They arranged to have dinner the following month .
I've already arranged with him to meet at the cinema .
She's arranged for her son to have swimming lessons .
[ + that ] I'd deliberately arranged that they should arrive at the same time .
[ + question word ] We haven't yet arranged wh en to meet . More examples My secretary will phone you to arrange a meeting. The company will arrange transport from the airport. I've specially arranged my trip so that I'll be home on Friday evening. We've arranged to stay overnight at my sister's house. They tried to arrange a ceremony with as little fuss as possible. across /əˈkrɑːs/ prep. 穿越過 from one side to the other of something with clear limits , such as an area of land , a road , or a river :
She walked across the field / road .
They're building a new bridge across the river .
When I reached the river , I simply swam across. More examples He folded his arms across his chest. Her books and clothes were packed into chests and shipped across to Canada. Their hoofs threw up clods of earth as they galloped across the field. On the eastern horizon, a huge cloud of smoke from burning oil tanks stretched across the sky. Quigley clouted me smartly across the side of the head. negotiate /nəˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/ v. 協商 to have formal discussions with someone in order to reach an agreement with them:
The government has refused to negotiate with the strikers .
I'm negotiating for a new contract .
I've managed to negotiate (= get by discussion ) a five percent pay increase with my boss . More examples Despite the deep antipathies between them, the two sides have managed to negotiate an agreement. The government's official line has always been to refuse to negotiate with terrorists. The police negotiated with the gunman through an intermediary. We need someone who is practised at negotiating business deals. He spent ages negotiating for a pay increase, only to resign from his job soon after he'd received it.