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Definition of "meeting"

meeting

Từ điển Collocation

meeting noun

¹ when people come together to discuss/decide sth

ADJ. frequent, regular | annual, biennial, half-yearly, monthly, quarterly, weekly, etc. | all-day, hour-long, two-hour, etc. | afternoon, breakfast, lunchtime, weekend, etc. | full, plenary | formal, informal | inaugural | mass | open-air | open, public | closed, private | secret | joint Management have called a joint meeting with staff and unions. | general The society is holding its Annual General Meeting in the conference room next Monday. | face-to-face, personal | bilateral, trilateral, tripartite | high-level, summit, top-level | exploratory, initial, introductory, preliminary, preparatory | follow-up | extraordinary, special | crisis, emergency, urgent | crucial, decisive, key, vital | impromptu | pre-inquiry, pre-session, pre-summit, etc. | post-election, post-results, etc. | board, cabinet, committee, council, departmental, family, ministerial, shareholders', staff, team, union | inter-governmental, inter-ministerial, inter-party, inter-tribal, etc. | business | political | discussion | protest | prayer | brief | endless, interminable, long We had endless meetings about the problem. The meeting seemed interminable. | angry, difficult, stormy | fruitless, inconclusive | successful, valuable

QUANT. series

VERB + MEETING have, hold | arrange, call, convene, organize, schedule, summon The committee has called a meeting to discuss the president's death. | attend | declare open, open The chairman declared the meeting open. | close, declare closed | adjourn, break up | call off, cancel | postpone | host | chair, conduct, preside over I've got to chair a meeting tomorrow. | call to order The chairman called the meeting to order. | participate in | address He always spoke as if he were addressing a public meeting. | ban | boycott | disrupt

MEETING + VERB go ahead, take place It is unclear whether the meeting will go ahead as planned. | be aimed at sth a meeting aimed at restoring peace in the region | begin, open, proceed, start | adjourn The meeting adjourned for coffee at eleven. | break up The meeting broke up after a row over whether to allow cameras in. | close, end The meeting closed on a sour note. | vote The meeting voted 423?133 in favour of a strike. | discuss sth | agree to sth, approve sth | condemn sth | urge sth This meeting urges the company to reconsider its decision to close the factory. | express sth The meeting expressed concern that the problem had still not been addressed. | hear sth The meeting heard that two workers had been sacked on the spot with no official reason given. | conclude sth, decide sth, resolve sth | drag (on) The meeting dragged into the early hours of the next day.

MEETING + NOUN house, place

PREP. in a/the ~ I'm afraid Mrs Haley is in a meeting at the moment. | ~ about a meeting about the plans for a new road | ~ between a meeting between tutors and students | ~ for a meeting for parents | ~ over Directors called a crisis meeting over the future of the company. | ~ with a meeting with French officials

PHRASES the purpose of a meeting, the minutes of a meeting The secretary circulated the minutes of the previous week's meeting to all committee members. | the outcome/result of a meeting

² coming together of two or more people

ADJ. accidental, chance, unexpected | fateful | clandestine, secret | historic, unprecedented | emotional | romantic

VERB + MEETING have

PREP. ~ with I had a chance meeting with an old schoolfriend last week.

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Từ điển WordNet

n.

• a formally arranged gathering; group meeting

  next year the meeting will be in Chicago

  the meeting elected a chairperson

• the social act of assembling for some common purpose; coming together

  his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day

• a small informal social gathering; get together

  there was an informal meeting in my living room

• a casual or unexpected convergence; encounter

  he still remembers their meeting in Paris

  there was a brief encounter in the hallway

• the act of joining together as one; merging, coming together

  the merging of the two groups occurred quickly

  there was no meeting of minds

• a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers); confluence

  Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers

n.

• a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held; sports meeting

v.

• come together; run into, encounter, run across, come across, see

  I'll probably see you at the meeting

  How nice to see you again!

• get together socially or for a specific purpose; get together
• be adjacent or come together; converge

  The lines converge at this point

• fill or meet a want or need; satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil
• satisfy a condition or restriction; fit, conform to

  Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?

• satisfy or fulfill; match, cope with

  meet a need

  this job doesn't match my dreams

• get to know; get acquainted with

  I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!

  we met in Singapore

• collect in one place; gather, assemble, forgather, foregather

  We assembled in the church basement

  Let's gather in the dining room

• meet by design; be present at the arrival of

  Can you meet me at the train station?

• contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; encounter, play, take on

  Princeton plays Yale this weekend

  Charlie likes to play Mary

• experience as a reaction; encounter, receive

  My proposal met with much opposition

• undergo or suffer; suffer

  meet a violent death

  suffer a terrible fate

• be in direct physical contact with; make contact; touch, adjoin, contact

  The two buildings touch

  Their hands touched

  The wire must not contact the metal cover

  The surfaces contact at this point

adj.

• being precisely fitting and right; fitting

  it is only meet that she should be seated first

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English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

meetings
syn.: coming together confluence encounter get together group meeting mergingmeets|met|meeting
syn.: assemble come together connect converge encounter gather join unite
ant.: part