meeting

meet|ing

W1S1 [ˈmi:tıŋ] n

1.) an event at which people meet to discuss and decide things

▪ We're having a meeting next week to discuss the matter.

▪ Over a hundred and fifty people attended the meeting .

▪ Mrs Lavelle is in a meeting at the moment.

▪ The minister has called an emergency meeting .

meeting about/on

▪ There was a public meeting about the future of the gallery.

meeting with

▪ I've got a meeting with Mr Edwards this afternoon.

meeting of

▪ a meeting of senior politicians

meeting between

▪ a meeting between unions and management

▪ Are you coming to the committee meeting this evening?

2.) the meeting

formal all the people who are at a meeting

▪ I'd like to put a few ideas before the meeting.

3.) [usually singular]

when people meet each other by chance or because they have arranged to do this

▪ I had felt drawn to Alice ever since our first meeting.

4.) a sports competition or a set of races for horses

5.) meeting of minds

a situation in which two people have very similar ideas and understand each other very well

▪ There was a real meeting of minds between the two leaders.

6.) an event at which a group of Quakers (=a Christian religious group) pray together

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COLLOCATES for sense 1

have/hold a meeting

go to/attend a meeting

be in/at a meeting

call a meeting (=decide there will be a meeting)

public meeting

emergency meeting

general meeting especially BrE (=a meeting that anyone can come to)

committee/staff/board meeting (=a meeting of a particular group of people)

summit meeting (=a meeting between leaders of governments)

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