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He had a review meeting with health workers and key government people, and then simply flew out.

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Quick take

a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of meet gathered in one view.

noun

a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held

verb

come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!"

verb

get together socially or for a specific purpose

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for meet.

noun

a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held

verb

come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!"

verb

get together socially or for a specific purpose

verb

be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point"

verb

fill or meet a want or need

See also: satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil

verb

satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?"

verb

satisfy or fulfill; "meet a need"; "this job doesn't match my dreams"

verb

collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"

See also: gather, assemble, forgather, foregather

verb

get to know; get acquainted with; "I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!"; "we met in Singapore"

verb

meet by design; be present at the arrival of; "Can you meet me at the train station?"

verb

contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"

verb

experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"

verb

undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate"

verb

be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"

adjective

being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that she should be seated first"

Example sentences

He had a review meeting with health workers and key government people, and then simply flew out.

Don't worry, though; all you were doing was going to meet PG at Y Combinator to talk about your startup.

You could go to meetup groups, or meet people online and transition to real-world encounters.

If you meet probation terms such as random drug testing and so forth, then your conviction record is "erased".

Here is a lesson I've learned the long, hard way after 30 years of being a strong introvert: it's not how or where you meet people that counts.

As a result, if Tim doesnt meet with each one of his employees in the next 24 hours, I will have no choice but to fire him and to fire you.

There was widespread mockery of people earning 500k who regarded themselves as just making ends meet.

When first two organisms meet, the interaction is usually rather messy.

" Others are expressing a desire to meet the author or expressing how they can identify with the author.

You end up rewriting your architecture because it didn't meet your requirements as well as you expected.

Then why would somebody running a large corporation hire more people than they thought would be needed to meet consumer demand?

If you're in the San Francisco area I'll meet up with you and listen to what happened and see if there's a way to work out of it, or at least listen.\n4.

This talk barely gets in the ballpark of quality of some of the presentations -- and the real reason to go isn't the presentations, but to meet people who doing great things in software.

> This offer is available to startups that meet the following criteria:\n> - In an approved Accelerator, Incubator or VC fundWhy is this a thing?

Many years ago, before the creation of the Web, a small group of us used to meet at a little wooden church just off the Stanford campus to discuss a little-known idea called nanotechnology.