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meeting

[ mee-ting ]

noun

  1. the act of coming together:

    a chance meeting in the park.

    Synonyms: , ,

  2. an assembly or conference of persons for a specific purpose:

    a ten o'clock business meeting.

  3. the body of persons present at an assembly or conference:

    to read a report to the meeting.

  4. a hostile encounter; duel.
  5. an assembly for religious worship, especially of Quakers.
  6. a place or point of contact; junction; juncture: the meeting of the waters.

    the meeting of two roads;

    the meeting of the waters.



meeting

/ ˈːɪŋ /

noun

  1. an act of coming together; encounter
  2. an assembly or gathering
  3. a conjunction or union
  4. a sporting competition, as of athletes, or of horse racing
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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of meeting1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English; meet 1 + -ing 1
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. take a meeting, Informal. to hold, conduct, or participate in a meeting:

    The producer took a meeting with the cast of the film.

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Example Sentences

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The school also has scheduled a parent meeting on Zoom at 4 p.m. today.

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“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.

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“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.”

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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.

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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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