a meeting is said to be quorate

[GoldfishLord]

A certain number of members must be present before a meeting is said to be quorate and can proceed.

Source: https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/say

What exactly does "said" mean?

 

[teechar]

"Said to be" means "considered to be" .

 

[GoldfishLord]

Does the word say have the meaning of "to say"?
I'd appreciate it if you gave me some examples with the same use of "said".

 

[teechar]

Does the word say have the meaning of "to say"?

I don't understand what you mean.
The structure above is: Be (usually is or was) + "said"+ "to" + Verb.

I'd appreciate it if you gave me some examples with the same use of "said".

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[GoldfishLord]

Does the word say have the meaning of "to consider"?

 

[teechar]

In that structure, it does.

 

[Rover_KE]

Also 'deemed to be'.

 

[BobK]

The phrase 'said to be' is a way of introducing the not-very-common word "quorate". Everyday users would say something like "there aren't enough for a quorum". Google (for me) finds more than 1.5 million instances of "quorum" but fewer than 40.000 of "quorate". The Google Ngram Viewer can't find any of "quorate". (I realize that there are proper nouns skewing the results, but still the noun vastly outweighs the adjective.

PS Everyday users would also (more likely) say things like "Do we have a quorum?" or "Is/Was there a quorum?"