Word Finder - meeting

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(gerund) The act of persons or things that meet.

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Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.

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A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.

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We need to have a meeting about that soon.

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(collective) The people at such a gathering.

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What has the meeting decided.

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An encounter between people, even accidental.

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They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.

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A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.

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Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.

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A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.

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An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

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Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.

I hope your meeting goes well.

We've got a meeting at two and it's almost one-thirty now.

I have a meeting out of town.

She finally lifted her chin, meeting his amused gaze defiantly.

For this purpose she arranged a meeting between the young people at the bishop's house before Mass.

Naturally he wouldn't say anything about his meeting with the other man.

I knew he had a spotted life before meeting my mother, but I figured he was secretive about his past simply because it gave him a sort of mystique.

He filled Fred in on meeting Jennifer Radisson, their afternoon trip to the mine, and the discovery of a back entrance.

He was performing the same function, but meeting him didn't darken Dean's mood appreciably.

He recalled all the words spoken at that first meeting with Potemkin.

What are the odds of her meeting this guy and being the daughter of his mine manager from twenty years earlier and a thousand miles away?

We were very kindly received, and Helen enjoyed meeting the children.

Meeting at large gatherings Julie and Boris looked on one another as the only souls who understood one another in a world of indifferent people.

Yang also quotes Mao as saying in a 1959 meeting, When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death.

There was the Friday meeting with the town ladies— just two days away—and Dean knew he should be gathering thoughts and notes but his mind was too scattered to construct a coherent speech.

Perhaps the meeting wasn't serendipitous at all.

She crossed her arms and looked up at him, meeting his steady look with a challenging one of her own.

It was here Dean was finally able to tell his wife about meeting Paul Senior's widow and his offer to show her the high country property in litigation.

It took exactly one hour to take Destiny over to Katie's and drop Jonathan off at the school before meeting with his teacher.

He wanted to tell her about meeting with Jennifer Radisson, but as soon as he started to speak, Fred O'Connor rushed up, a look of panic on his face.

He went to his room to change for the meeting with his producer.

Howard hadn't said anything about the meeting with Allen.

Memory of their first meeting brought warmth to her cheeks.

I thought it would look like you were meeting him there.

Acting on the queen's explicit instructions, Essex, after some ill-managed operations, had a meeting with Tyrone at a ford on the Lagan on th 7th of September 1599, when a truce was arranged; but Elizabeth was displeased by the favourable conditions allowed to the O'Neill and by Essex's treatment of him as an equal.

One beautiful summer day, not long after my meeting with Dr. Holmes, Miss Sullivan and I visited Whittier in his quiet home on the Merrimac.

Having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up red.

His meeting with Pierre formed an epoch in Prince Andrew's life.

As happens to some people, especially to men who judge those near to them severely, he always on meeting anyone new-- especially anyone whom, like Speranski, he knew by reputation--expected to discover in him the perfection of human qualities.

The Emperor is to be here tomorrow... there's to be an Extraordinary Meeting of the nobility, and they are talking of a levy of ten men per thousand.

And don't go to any meeting yourself, do you hear?

This meeting immediately struck Rostov as a romantic event.

She stopped, her cool gaze meeting his.

The facts drifted in slowly, as if attending a dreaded meeting.

Why would Yancey be meeting with Allen?

He finished his pie and leaned back in his chair, his gaze meeting hers.

Howie biked to work as wheel-less Julie had driven her boyfriend's Mustang to her monastic meeting in Vermont.

The problem isn't your staying her; it's this whole clandestine meeting.

Molly is fun to be around, chatty and inquisitive and far less reserved than at our first meeting.

It might make me a few minutes late meeting with Jackson but all the more time for Brennan to speak with him first.

The only person I recognized was the black FBI woman from our earlier meeting.

I've got a meeting at eight.

Jule rested a large hand on her forearm, and she stilled, meeting his intense gaze.

It was the first real words the two had exchanged since their meeting at the mine.

He considered cancelling the meeting.

Was he the reason Alex had hopped on the phone so quickly, and was he the person Alex had been meeting, not Lori?

The vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that this young Jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested.

A solemn meeting of the lodge of the second degree was convened, at which Pierre promised to communicate to the Petersburg Brothers what he had to deliver to them from the highest leaders of their order.

Go in there where they are meeting, and wait for me.

Besides, if you buy her story of years of happy marriage, it doesn't point to any untoward reason for Dawkins to seek her out before meeting her.