meetingnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈmiː.tɪŋ/us/ˈmiː.t̬ɪŋ/A2 a planned occasion when people come together to discuss something:
We're having a meeting on Thursday to discuss the problem.
I'm sorry but she's in a meeting - I'll ask her to call you back later.
an occasion when people meet each other, especially when this was not planned:
A chance (= not intended) meeting with a publisher on an airplane had launched his career.
I liked him from our first meeting.
a group of people who have met for a particular purpose:
The meeting wants to look at the proposal again.
UK a sports competition
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- I'd like to fix a date for our next meeting.
- We are getting some facts and figures together and we will then have a full board meeting.
- The meeting should finish around four o'clock.
- The hotel is an ideal venue for conferences and business meetings.
- After a six-hour flight and a long day of meetings, it's not surprising you're exhausted.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Meeting people
- appointment
- conclave
- cross
- cross sb's path/cross paths with sb idiom
- deal
- gathering
- hello
- hook
- hook up
- how are things (with you)? idiom
- how do you do? idiom
- it's a date idiom
- known
- massed
- meet
- meeting point
- muster point
- remember sb to sb
- run across sb
- tryst
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Competitions, & parts of competitions
Idiom(s)
a meeting of minds