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verb/ˈmɪnɪt/
/ˈmɪnɪt/
[often passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they minute | /ˈmɪnɪt/ /ˈmɪnɪt/ |
| he / she / it minutes | /ˈmɪnɪts/ /ˈmɪnɪts/ |
| past simple minuted | /ˈmɪnɪtɪd/ /ˈmɪnɪtɪd/ |
| past participle minuted | /ˈmɪnɪtɪd/ /ˈmɪnɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form minuting | /ˈmɪnɪtɪŋ/ /ˈmɪnɪtɪŋ/ |
- to write down something that is said at a meeting in the official record (= the minutes)
- be minuted I'd like that last remark to be minuted.
- Meetings must be minuted and the minutes approved at the following meeting.
- it is minuted that… I would like it to be minuted that I do not support this proposal.
Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from late Latin minuta, feminine (used as a noun) of minutus ‘made small’. The senses ‘period of sixty seconds’ and ‘sixtieth of a degree’ derive from medieval Latin pars minuta prima ‘first minute part’. The sense record of a meeting is from late Middle English (in the singular in the sense ‘note or memorandum’): from French minute, from the notion of a rough copy in “small writing” (Latin scriptura minuta) as distinct from the fair copy in book hand. The verb dates from the mid 16th cent.
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