Topic: SPORT
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meet‧ing S1 W1
[countable]
[countable]1 an event at which people meet to discuss and decide things COLLOCATIONS COLLOCATIONS
have/hold a meeting go to/attend a meeting be in/at a meeting call a meeting (=decide there will be a meeting) public meeting emergency meeting general meeting especially British English (=a meeting that anyone can come to) committee/staff/board meeting (=a meeting of a particular group of people) summit meeting (=a meeting between leaders of governments)
COLLOCATIONS have/hold a meeting go to/attend a meeting be in/at a meeting call a meeting (=decide there will be a meeting) public meeting emergency meeting general meeting especially British English (=a meeting that anyone can come to) committee/staff/board meeting (=a meeting of a particular group of people) summit meeting (=a meeting between leaders of governments)
2 all the people who are at a meeting : 
I'd like to put a few ideas before the meeting.
the meeting
formalI'd like to put a few ideas before the meeting.3 [usually singular] when people meet each other by chance or because they have arranged to do this : I had felt drawn to Alice ever since our first meeting.
I had felt drawn to Alice ever since our first meeting.4DS a sports competition or a set of races for horses
5 a situation in which two people have very similar ideas and understand each other very well : There was a real meeting of minds between the two leaders.
meeting of minds
There was a real meeting of minds between the two leaders.6RRC an event at which a group of Quakers (=a Christian religious group) pray together
