break-out rooms

English translation: small meeting room

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English term or phrase: break-out room
Selected answer:small meeting room
Entered by: R. Alex Jenkins

14:06 Feb 25, 2006
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English term or phrase: break-out rooms
Please give me a synonym for " break-out rooms" :
The program requires a meeting room large enough to accommodate up to 20 participants and three break-out rooms, each equipped with a flipchart.
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Iren Rad
Local time: 16:57
small meeting room
Explanation:
It's more commonly written as 'breakout' room, without the hyphen, and it's generally a place that accomodates a group of 8-16 people wishing to have a private meeting. This room could be an area within a larger meeting room itself, put to one side especially for this purpose, or it could be a small, private room with a seperate door.

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Note added at 22 mins (2006-02-25 14:29:15 GMT)
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In this context too, you can hire a breakout room, so it's not always just a place for a larger group to split and have seperate discussions.

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Note added at 22 mins (2006-02-25 14:29:52 GMT)
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R. Alex Jenkins
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Local time: 10:27
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Thanks to all who answered, gave a comment, or wrote a note, thanks also to SwissTell for the good reference.
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5 +14small meeting room
R. Alex Jenkins
4 +1below the definition
swisstell
4Adjacent rooms
Mwananchi
3small boardroom
Girija Chatrath


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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
below the definition


Explanation:
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What's a Breakout Room?
The idea is to provide a space where the important discussions that always take place in the margins and corridors of workshops and meetings can find a home:



    Reference: http://www.ids.ac.uk/poverty_hunger/breakout.html
swisstell
Italy
Local time: 15:27
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German

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agree  RHELLER: well we had to read a lot of stuff to get to the point at the bottom = space!
1 hr
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Adjacent rooms


Explanation:
(Large) Hall with three adjacent rooms.

Mwananchi
Kenya
Local time: 16:27
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SwahiliSwahili
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +14
small meeting room


Explanation:
It's more commonly written as 'breakout' room, without the hyphen, and it's generally a place that accomodates a group of 8-16 people wishing to have a private meeting. This room could be an area within a larger meeting room itself, put to one side especially for this purpose, or it could be a small, private room with a seperate door.

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Note added at 22 mins (2006-02-25 14:29:15 GMT)
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In this context too, you can hire a breakout room, so it's not always just a place for a larger group to split and have seperate discussions.

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Note added at 22 mins (2006-02-25 14:29:52 GMT)
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http://business.missouri.edu/620/default.aspx

R. Alex Jenkins
Brazil
Local time: 10:27
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks to all who answered, gave a comment, or wrote a note, thanks also to SwissTell for the good reference.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Dave Calderhead
29 mins
  -> Thanks Dave

agree  Alison Jenner
1 hr
  -> Also, Thank you Alison for your affirmation

agree  David Knowles: A main meeting may split into smaller meetings that then report back to the main meeting. The main meeting may be called a "plenary" session, and the smaller meetings take place in "breakout rooms".
2 hrs
  -> Cheers David

agree  Kim Metzger
4 hrs
  -> Thanks, Kim

agree  marybro: yes, usually not hyphenated... "breakout" ...BTW, I enjoyed the link from Mizzou (University of Missouri-Columbia) Go Tigers!
4 hrs
  -> Thanks, Marybro

agree  Penelope Ausejo
4 hrs
  -> Again, thanks

agree  jccantrell: Yep, used for 'splinter sessions' for more specialized sessions or ones with fewer participants.
5 hrs
  -> Thank you

agree  William [Bill] Gray
5 hrs
  -> Cheers

agree  NancyLynn
8 hrs
  -> Cheers NancyLynn, have a nice weekend.

agree  Seema Ugrankar
9 hrs
  -> Thanks Seema

agree  Alexandra Tussing
9 hrs
  -> Also, Thanks Alexandra

agree  Charlesp
17 hrs
  -> Cheers Charles

agree  Alfa Trans (X)
18 hrs
  -> Regards Marju

agree  Peter Shortall: I spent most of Thursday in one!! :)
1 day 9 hrs
  -> Cheers Peter, seems I've got the points on this one. Nice to hear from you.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
small boardroom


Explanation:
my suggestion

Girija Chatrath
Local time: 18:57
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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