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In simple terms, a meeting host is the organizer of a Google Meet, however, there are some caveats to that statement (see below). As the host, they have additional functions in the meeting that other participants do not have such as creating muting other participants, creating polls, etc. For the purposes of this guide, the key feature that the meeting host has is the ability to admit external guests into the meeting. If the host of the meeting does not join the meeting, there will be nobody on the call to actually admit those external guests when they make the request.
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