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• meet, meet with — In the sense of to come into the company of, meet and meet with have different meanings: The mayor wishes to meet the new members of the council. The mayor wishes to meet with the new members of the council. In the first sentence, meet means to… …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

• meet with — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms meet with : present tense I/you/we/they meet with he/she/it meets with present participle meeting with past tense met with past participle met with 1) meet with someone to have a formal meeting with someone… …   English dictionary

• meet with — phrasal 1. : to come upon : find 2. : to join in company with 3. : to be subjected to (fortune or vicissitude) : undergo, experience 4. obsolete : to encounter as an enemy …   Useful english dictionary

• meet with — phr verb Meet with is used with these nouns as the object: ↑accident, ↑acclaim, ↑adversity, ↑approval, ↑criticism, ↑hostility, ↑kindness, ↑official, ↑opposition, ↑reaction, ↑realtor, ↑rebuff, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

• meet with — {v.} 1. To meet (someone), usually by accident. * /In the woods he met with two strangers./ Syn.: COME UPON. 2. To meet together, usually by plan; join; have a meeting with. * /The two scouts met with the officers to talk about plans for the… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• meet with — {v.} 1. To meet (someone), usually by accident. * /In the woods he met with two strangers./ Syn.: COME UPON. 2. To meet together, usually by plan; join; have a meeting with. * /The two scouts met with the officers to talk about plans for the… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• meet\ with — v 1. To meet (someone), usually by accident. In the woods he met with two strangers. Syn.: come upon 2. To meet together, usually by plan; join; have a meeting with. The two scouts met with the officers to talk about plans for the march. 3. To… …   Словарь американских идиом

• meet up with — meet by accident, come upon without planning or expecting to He met up with a nice group of people in Australia when he was travelling there …   Idioms and examples

• meet — meet1 W1S1 [mi:t] v past tense and past participle met [met] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(see somebody at an arranged place)¦ 2¦(see somebody by chance)¦ 3¦(see somebody for the first time)¦ 4¦(see somebody at an airport/station etc)¦ 5¦(come together to discuss… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• meet — 1 /mi:t/ verb past tense and past participle met /met/ 1 BE IN THE SAME PLACE (intransitive, transitive not in passive) a) to be in the same place as someone else because you have arranged to do this: Meet me at 8.00. | We agreed to meet in front …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• meet — I n. (esp. AE) (sports) 1) to hold, organize a meet 2) a dual; swim, swimming; track, track and field meet II v. 1) (d; intr.) to meet with ( to encounter ) (to meet with approval; they met with an accident) 2) (esp. AE) (d; intr.) to meet with ( …   Combinatory dictionary