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meeting
[ mee-ting ]
noun
- the act of coming together:
a chance meeting in the park.
Synonyms: , ,
- an assembly or conference of persons for a specific purpose:
a ten o'clock business meeting.
- the body of persons present at an assembly or conference:
to read a report to the meeting.
- a hostile encounter; duel.
- an assembly for religious worship, especially of Quakers.
the meeting of two roads;
the meeting of the waters.
meeting
/ ˈːɪŋ /
noun
- an act of coming together; encounter
- an assembly or gathering
- a conjunction or union
- a sporting competition, as of athletes, or of horse racing
Other Word Forms
- ܲ·iԲ noun
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- take a meeting, Informal. to hold, conduct, or participate in a meeting:
The producer took a meeting with the cast of the film.
Example Sentences
The school also has scheduled a parent meeting on Zoom at 4 p.m. today.
“It’s snowballed into this greater healing project, because I started meeting up with people at their houses, and they’d tell me their story and then I’d take their photograph,” she says.
“They have complex health and mental health conditions. They are meeting us at a real moment of crisis. The timing with which we reach out to our clients seems magical to me.”
Paramount’s board during an April 18 meeting agreed on parameters for a possible settlement with Trump, according to two people familiar with the discussions who were not authorized to comment.
Symonds recalled meeting Pointer for the first time at the Actor’s Workshop in San Francisco, where she was “sitting at a desk typing a letter,” he told The Times in 1997.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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