quorum
/kwor m/ • noun (pl. quorums) the minimum number of members of an assembly or society that must be present at a meeting to make the proceedings valid. — ORIGIN used in commissions in which particular people were designated as members of a body (originally of justices of the peace) by the Latin words quorum vos &ddd; unum (duos, etc.) esse volumus ‘of whom we wish that you &ddd; be one (two, etc.)’.
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