meetableadj.

Brit.

/ˈmiːtəbl/, U.S.

/ˈmidəb(ə)l/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: meet v., -able suffix.

Etymology: < meet v. + -able suffix. Compare earlier unmeetable adj.

Capable of being met (in various senses of the verb).

ΚΠ

1868 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 June 3/2 Some one meetable whom we wanted particularly to meet.

1877 Galaxy Oct. 579/1 He has not..made these charges publicly under his own signature, nor has he put them in any legal or meetable shape.

1967 Listener 6 Apr. 468/3 The Russian diplomats too are noticeably more likely to treat western powers as stable and their statesmen as more meetable than the embarrassing fellow comrades of these countries.

1977 Business Week (Industr. ed.) (Nexis) 6 June 90 And if the standard is not meetable, then the manufacturer can sue us to have it set aside.

1995 Electronic Buyers' News (Nexis) 3 July pm12 This way I can sit down with the suppliers and engineers and make sure what we need is a meetable specification.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	meetable
释义	meetableadj. Brit. /ˈmiːtəbl/, U.S. /ˈmidəb(ə)l/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: meet v., -able suffix. Etymology: < meet v. + -able suffix. Compare earlier unmeetable adj. Capable of being met (in various senses of the verb). ΚΠ 1868 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 June 3/2 Some one meetable whom we wanted particularly to meet. 1877 Galaxy Oct. 579/1 He has not..made these charges publicly under his own signature, nor has he put them in any legal or meetable shape. 1967 Listener 6 Apr. 468/3 The Russian diplomats too are noticeably more likely to treat western powers as stable and their statesmen as more meetable than the embarrassing fellow comrades of these countries. 1977 Business Week (Industr. ed.) (Nexis) 6 June 90 And if the standard is not meetable, then the manufacturer can sue us to have it set aside. 1995 Electronic Buyers' News (Nexis) 3 July pm12 This way I can sit down with the suppliers and engineers and make sure what we need is a meetable specification. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1868
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