meeting
Definition of meeting
1 : an act or process of coming together: such asa : an assembly for a common purpose (such as worship)b : a session of horse or dog racing
2 : a permanent organizational unit of the Society of Friends
3 : intersection, junction
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Examples of meeting in a Sentence
The club's monthly meeting will be held next Monday evening.
She was too busy to attend the meeting.
Let's have a meeting to discuss these problems.
I wasn't able to talk to him because he was in a meeting.
They started dating each other soon after their first meeting.
Their friendship began with a chance meeting at a business convention.
Tonight's game will be their first meeting of the season.
a town at the meeting of two rivers
Recent Examples of meeting from the Web
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After the litigation was filed — by Mr. Morrissey and Mr. Pruitt, along with other attorneys general who attended the Greenbrier meeting — Murray Energy sued in the federal court case as well, just as had been planned.
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Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder defended his program’s philosophy about granting transfers in a meeting with reporters on Thursday.
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in called a meeting of the national security council.
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Since that meeting, Cooper and the rest of Auburn's first signing class under coach Clint Myers transformed the program from an afterthought on the Plains to a national powerhouse.
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Perhaps getting it all out in the open will facilitate some soul-searching meetings that allow all the parties to heal and move forward.
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That's a meeting of leaders of most of the world's industrial powers for discussions on economics and security.
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May is adamant that Flagstone met its deadline for upland construction, adding that Flagstone has held weekly meetings with city administrators for months in order to discuss the micro details of the project and the developer’s obligations.
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Francis gave the U.S. president a copy of his 2015 encyclical calling for urgent, drastic cuts in fossil-fuel emissions after a half-hour meeting in his private study.
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14th Century
First Known Use of meeting
14th century
MEETING Defined for English Language Learners
meeting
Definition of meeting for English Language Learners
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: a gathering of people for a particular purpose (such as to talk about business)
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: a gathering of people for religious worship
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: a situation or occasion when two people see and talk to each other
MEETING Defined for Kids
meeting
Definition of meeting for Students
1 : the act of persons or things that come together a chance meeting
2 : a gathering of people for a particular purpose The club holds weekly meetings.
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