The combinations of verbs & prepositions are a big part of professional conversations, emails and meetings!

Phrasal Verbs for Business

To introduce a topic
"I'd like to bring up the issue of the budget"

To briefly explain or review something
"Let's run through the presentation before we present it to the client"

To begin a meeting or event
"Let's kick off the meeting"

To cancel something
"I think we should call off the meeting"

To discuss in detail / review
"Let’s go over the report together"

To finish or end something
"We’ll need to wrap up this meeting on time, because I have a flight to catch"

To briefly mention (to touch/ touched)
"We touched on the budget issue during the last meeting"

To interrupt someone
Sorry I cut you off, I accidentally hit the 'exit' key on the Zoom call!

To involve someone in a discussion
"Let’s bring in David to resolve this issue"

To suggest or propose something (an idea or plan)
"I’d like to put forward a suggestion"

To concede / stop negotiating 
"He won’t back down on his pricing policy"

To delay taking action
"Let’s hold off on signing the agreement until we have a consensus across the board"

To reach an agreement (came/ come)
"After hours in the meeting, we finally came to a consensus"

To intervene/ get involved
"My manager stepped in to help fix the issue"

To highlight a mistake, problem or issue
"She called me out for the error I made in the financial report"