minute book
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5.7
- noun
- /ˈmɪnɪt bʊk/
- Formal
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libro de actas
- In her role as secretary, she diligently recorded every discussion in the minute book for future reference.
Examples
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Another fire in 1871 consumed the home of a member of the board of trustees, destroying the trustees' minute book for the period between 1858 and 1871.
Academic text (2017) -
Kehal Adath Jeshurun also left us their minute books in an until-recently sealed synagogue vault; a critically important month-by-month account of the synagogue's organizational activities.
Academic text (1990) -
The analysis begins, through the help of its minute books, in 1890.
Academic text (1990) -
Another more modern obstacle is that churches no longer keep minute books or other such documents in hard copy.
Blog text (24) -
Mine was a tremendous learning experience. I spent hours going through old minute books, correspondence, sermons, and other old manuscripts.
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So we know from the Minute Book that the suffragettes of Huddersfield were a very feisty lot and a number of them went to prison.
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Even more helpful would be for an archivist to collect and catalog precious minute books and other old manuscripts for proper preservation and use by historians.
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The minute books generally contain the title of each case, the name of the victim(s) and defendant(s), the name of the owner of the defendant, the result of the grand jury or other preliminary proceeding, the final disposition of the case, and any punishment the court ordered.
Academic text (2009) -
The 396 cases that form the core of this study concern themselves with capital crimes, those punishable by death, and were drawn from the minute books of the various magistrates, inferior, and superior courts of Georgia, supplemented by newspapers, government documents, and manuscript collections.
Academic text (2009) -
The organization keeps detailed records of its meetings in a minute book that all members can access.
Synonyms
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2.3
A book that lists official facts or achievements
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a book in which meeting minutes are kept' is directly and transparently composed from 'minute' (a written account of meeting proceedings) + 'book' (a bound set of pages). This simple noun–noun compound follows a common, compositional pattern (a book for X) and should be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Minute book comes from the simple idea that minute means 'the written notes of a meeting' and book is a book where you keep them. So, a minute book is the official book an organization uses to store its meeting minutes.