“Minutes of meeting” or “Minutes meeting”

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What is the right expression, "minutes of meeting" or "minutes meeting"?

Minutes meeting would imply that the meeting is about the minutes (most likely of another meeting). If you kept a record of this meeting, you would produce minutes meeting minutes.

Hugo · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-21 14:56:33Z

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You can use either "minutes of the meeting" or "meeting minutes", but not "minutes meeting".

"Meeting minutes" is used a bit more often according to Google Ngram Viewer:

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answered Oct 21 '11 at 14:56

Hugo
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Barrie England · Answer 2 · 2011-10-21 14:51:34Z

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If you're talking about the record of a meeting, the expression is minutes of the meeting.

answered Oct 21 '11 at 14:51

Barrie England
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	Or perhaps the meeting minutes. But not minutes meeting. That would probably mean the length of time (in minutes) that the meeting lasted. Unless that's what you wanted? – GEdgar Oct 21 '11 at 14:55
	@GEdgar: ...or a meeting about the particular time period called 'minutes'. – Mitch Oct 21 '11 at 14:58

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