meeting

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An organized gathering of people for a particular purpose.

   The meeting with the sales team starts at nine.

2. 2
   noun

   An occasion when people come together, sometimes by chance.

   They fell in love after a chance meeting on the train.

Common collocations

• business meeting Adjective + noun
• attend a meeting Verb + noun
• hold a meeting Verb + noun
• annual meeting Adjective + noun
• emergency meeting Adjective + noun
• call a meeting Verb + noun
• chair a meeting Verb + noun

From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English mētende, *ġemētende, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), equivalent to meet + -ing.

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