Business English phrasal verbs for meetings and emails
Useful business phrasal verbs for meetings, planning, follow-up emails, decisions, and project updates.
Business English uses many phrasal verbs because meetings and emails often need short, flexible language.
The key is knowing which phrases sound natural without becoming too casual for the situation.
Meetings
Bring up means introduce a topic. Go over means review. Wrap up means finish. Follow up means continue with action after the meeting.
These are common in both spoken meetings and written summaries.
Planning and projects
Set up means arrange or create. Roll out means launch gradually or publicly. Push back means delay. Carry out means perform a task.
These verbs help describe project movement clearly.
Email tone
Phrasal verbs like follow up, look into, get back to, and send over are normal in workplace email.
For very formal emails, replace some of them with more formal verbs: investigate, respond, provide, or submit.
Examples
I wanted to follow up on yesterday's meeting.
A standard email opening.
Can we go over the timeline before Friday?
Review the timeline together.
The launch was pushed back by two weeks.
The launch was delayed.
Quick practice
1. Complete: I will ___ ___ to you by tomorrow.
get back
2. Which means delay: roll out or push back?
push back