MEET | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of meet in English meetverb uk /miːt/ us /miːt/ met | met

meet verb (FOR THE FIRST TIME)

Add to word list Add to word list A1 [ T or I ] to see and talk to someone for the first time: They met at work. I met her in Hawaii. Would you like to meet my sister? Come and meet (= be introduced to) my friend Laura.

• I'd like you to meet Ann Gregory, my deputy.
• I'm dreading having to meet his parents.
• It's important to create a good impression when you meet a new client.
• It's not always easy to meet members of the opposite sex.
• We went backstage after the show to meet the actors.

Being friends & getting to know them

• be on speaking terms idiom
• be/get in with someone idiom
• be/live in each other's pockets idiom
• befriend
• bonding
• friendliness
• friendly with someone
• gadabout
• get along phrasal verb
• get along with someone
• mingle
• mirror
• mirroring
• Mitteleuropa
• pal
• pocket
• shell
• speak
• strike
• tight

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meet verb (COME TOGETHER)

A1 [ I or T ] to come together with someone intentionally: Lorraine and I meet for lunch once a month. We agreed to meet on Tuesday to discuss the project. The children's club meets every Thursday afternoon.meet with They're meeting with their advisers to draw up a new plan. The president met the UK prime minister in London yesterday. A1 [ T or I ] to come together with someone without intending to: It's always awkward when you meet someone you know but you can't remember their name. Guess who I met in town today. We met our old neighbours at an auction last Saturday.

• I'll meet you at the check-in desk.
• She's gone to meet Blake at the station.
• I'm meeting a group of friends for dinner tonight.
• The lovers met at a secret rendezvous in the park.
• We met on several occasions to discuss the issue.

Meeting people

• acquaintance
• ayup
• bump into someone phrasal verb
• conclave
• counter-rally
• cross someone's path/cross paths with someone idiom
• fish
• mass
• massed
• meeting
• muster point
• open house
• paths cross idiom
• pick
• pick someone/something up phrasal verb
• play date
• power breakfast
• respect
• someone's path recrosses/paths recross idiom
• tryst

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meet verb (SATISFY)

C1 [ T ] to fulfil, satisfy, or achieve: The workers' demands for higher pay were not met by the management.meet someone’s needs We haven't yet been able to find a house that meets our needs.meet a requirement The equipment must meet all safety requirements.meet a condition They will only agree to sign the contract if certain conditions are met.meet a deadline Do you think we will be able to meet our deadline?meet a target Further cuts in emissions are required each year to meet government targets. [ T ] to pay: The company has agreed to meet all our expenses.

• This type of computer is too slow and inflexible to meet many business needs.
• Can the sales force meet its financial objectives?
• They threatened to blow up the plane if their demands were not met.
• They agreed to raise the trade embargo if three conditions were met.
• His latest book met all my expectations.

Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling

• A game
• accomplish
• achieve
• acquit
• actualize
• carry
• get (something) off the ground idiom
• get ahead phrasal verb
• get away with something phrasal verb
• get in/get into something phrasal verb
• get off on the right/wrong foot idiom
• pan
• punch above your weight idiom
• re-attain
• reach the heights of something
• ride, drive, walk, etc. (off) into the sunset idiom
• romp through something phrasal verb
• stick
• storm
• strength

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Paying money

meet verb (PLACE)

B1 [ T ] to wait at a place for someone or something to arrive: Will you meet me at the airport (= be there when the aircraft arrives)?

• A representative from the tour company will meet you at the check-in.
• You go on ahead of me, and I'll meet you there.
• It's very kind of you to come all the way to meet me.
• I'll meet you by the down escalator on the second floor.
• She's gone to meet Brian at the station.

Meeting people

• acquaintance
• ayup
• bump into someone phrasal verb
• conclave
• counter-rally
• cross someone's path/cross paths with someone idiom
• fish
• mass
• massed
• meeting
• muster point
• open house
• paths cross idiom
• pick
• pick someone/something up phrasal verb
• play date
• power breakfast
• respect
• someone's path recrosses/paths recross idiom
• tryst

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meet verb (TOUCH)

[ I or T ] to touch or join something: There's a large crack where the ceiling meets the wall. The curtains don't quite meet. The horizon is the line where the sky meets the earth. Connecting and combining

• abut
• additive
• adjoin
• affix something to something
• agglomerate
• connecting
• converge
• convergence
• cor
• couple something together
• intertwine
• interweave
• isthmic
• join something to something
• join something together
• together
• twin
• umbilical
• unification
• unified

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meet verb (EXPERIENCE)

[ T ] to experience something: I've never met that kind of problem/system before. He met his death (= he died) in the icy waters of the South Atlantic. Experiencing and suffering

• (straight) from the horse's mouth idiom
• afflict
• affliction
• almost/nearly die of something idiom
• battle scar
• be a martyr to something idiom
• depth
• escape
• get the short end of the stick idiom
• go through phrasal verb
• grief-stricken
• grip
• hands-on
• horse
• practical
• run up against something phrasal verb
• seat-of-the-pants
• see life idiom
• stricken
• taste

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Idioms

be more to this than meets the eye eyes meet meet someone's eye meet someone halfway meet your maker meet your match meet your Waterloo

Phrasal verbs

meet up meet with something be met with something meetnoun [ C ] uk /miːt/ us /miːt/ mainly US a sports event in which people compete against each other, for example in swimming or running: The 800m runner was unbeaten for two years, but she lost at a meet in July. a track/swim meet the first meet of the season (also car meet) an occasion when people who are very interested in cars meet to look at each other's cars and talk about them: A young man was injured when a vehicle hit spectators at a car meet. According to the etiquette of car meets, you must never touch someone else's car without permission. According to the car enthusiasts' social media page, the meet was their final one of the year. UK an occasion when people on horses chase and kill a fox with dogs: He attended a meet of Bicester Fox Hunt, in Oxfordshire. On average, I would guess, one fox is killed at each meet.

• The athlete tested positive for a banned steroid at a meet in Paris.
• She is preparing to vault in an International Gymnastics Federation meet.
• You can learn so much about cars and the car community by going to a meet.

Competitions, & parts of competitions

• All-Ireland
• bathing beauty
• be a game of two halves idiom
• beauty contest
• beauty pageant
• bout
• bowl
• championship
• jayvee
• keirin
• local derby
• non-game
• non-major
• omnium
• tournament
• tournament bracket
• tourney
• triple crown
• ultra
• vert

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Miscellaneous games & activities Hunting & fishing (Definition of meet from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

meet | American Dictionary

meetverb us /mit/ past tense and past participle met us/met/

meet verb (COME TOGETHER)

Add to word list Add to word list [ I/T ] to come together with another person: [ I ] We agreed to meet on Tuesday at six. [ I ] They’re meeting with their advisers to work out a new plan. [ T ] The doctor unexpectedly met one of her patients in the supermarket. [ T ] Will we meet Joyce’s plane (= be at the airport when she arrives)? [ I ] The teams met twice this season (= competed against each other twice).

meet verb (BECOME FAMILIAR WITH)

[ I/T ] to become familiar with someone for the first time: [ I ] They met at work. [ T ] I’d like you to meet my friend Laura.

meet verb (JOIN)

[ I/T ] (esp. of objects) to join or touch: [ I ] The curtains don’t meet in the middle of the window.

meet verb (FULFILL)

[ T ] to fulfill, satisfy, or achieve: We haven’t found office space that meets our needs. Do you think she’ll be able to meet the deadline?

Idiom

meet someone halfway

Phrasal verbs

meet up (with someone) meet with something meet with something meetnoun [ C ] us /mit/

meet noun [C] (SPORTS EVENT)

a sports event at which several teams or people compete: a track meet a swimming meet (Definition of meet from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

meet | Business English

meetverb uk /miːt/ us met uk/met/ | met uk/met/ Add to word list Add to word list [ I or T ] to arrange to see a person or group of people in order to speak with them about something: Team members arranged to meet at designated locations in their respective cities. Committees meet regularly with planning groups. Italy's lawmakers are meeting today to discuss the proposed new legislation.meet sb Senior government officials attended a gathering in Dubai in September to meet international oil executives.meet at sth Delegates will meet at the Imperial Hotel next Wednesday at 10.30.meet in Washington/Dubai/Shanghai, etc. European Union leaders are meeting in Nice to decide on various reforms.meet with sb Trust directors have already met with staff to review records and discuss future performance targets. [ T ] to achieve the result or level that had been expected: We are on track to meet earnings forecasts. Due to strong growth in the homes division, the company met its home completion target of 8,000 for the year.meet a target/expectation/goal Profits this year will not meet expectations because of a slowdown in the worldwide economic recovery. [ T ] to satisfy a demand or need: The mortgages they offer meet customer needs for flexibility.meet a demand/need for sth To meet the demand for its services, the university is building a new campus.meet the needs of sb/sth Many new jobs are service jobs to meet the daily needs of all the people moving to the region. [ T ] to do something that you must do because of a law or rule: meet a condition/requirement/obligation The Government has threatened to seize the assets of companies that do not meet their obligations to pensioners.be met by sb/sth Certain criteria must be met by applicants before they can enrol on the program. [ T ] to have enough money to pay for something, or to pay amounts you owe: meet costs/payments/expenses Meeting mortgage payments is becoming increasingly difficult for more and more people. be met by sb/sth [ T ] to have the money or resources you need in order to do something, especially something that you have not done before: meet a challenge/opportunity We need a different set of strategies to help us meet the challenges of the new marketplace.  meet a deadline to finish work at the time or by a date that has been previously agreed: Employees are under constant pressure to meet deadlines.  meet (sb) halfway to reach an agreement with another person or group by offering them some of the things they want: The bank offered to meet them halfway by splitting the difference. He wants us to work to meet the stakeholders halfway to try to accommodate everyone's wishes.

Phrasal verbs

meet up meet with sth (Definition of meet from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of meet

meet They were permitted one repetition of each of the training phases if this 75% criterion was not initially met. From the Cambridge English Corpus Figures will be returned if failing to meet this standard with subsequent delay to publication. From the Cambridge English Corpus Using shape annealing for pattern generation, spatial layouts that reflect desired styles as well as meet structural purpose can be generated. From the Cambridge English Corpus In summer, there would be sufficient solar energy to meet the hot water demand for the centre. From the Cambridge English Corpus This means that the state variables converge asymptotically to zero, thus meeting the control objective. From the Cambridge English Corpus Again, although none of these have been measured in field settings, these joint conditions are unlikely to be met. From the Cambridge English Corpus A single treatment approach, like one used with adults, is unlikely to meet the needs of children at various developmental levels. From the Cambridge English Corpus In both cases, the necessary conditions are so unlikely to be met that one can reject these arguments for proportionate taxation out of hand. From the Cambridge English Corpus It seems highly unlikely that any of these would meet our definition of a dream. From the Cambridge English Corpus An emulation or a "compatible" is unlikely to meet the stringent hardware demands. From the Cambridge English Corpus The author also visited every ward once a month at an agreed time and met with at least one of the contact persons. From the Cambridge English Corpus First, political elites may respond selectively to indigenous claims, meeting specific types of demands, while marginalising or punishing other types of claims. From the Cambridge English Corpus The function information is typically in the form of various attributes that a design must meet before it can be considered complete. From the Cambridge English Corpus Partly to meet this demand, widespread educational reform was undertaken. From the Cambridge English Corpus Thus, criterion 2 was met for both independent variables. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of meet These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of meet?

Translations of meet

in Chinese (Traditional) 與…相識, （和…）初次見面, （與…）相識… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 与…相识, （和…）初次见面, （与…）相识… See more in Spanish conocer, conocerse, encontrar… See more in Portuguese conhecer, conhecer-se, encontrar… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian भेटणे, एकत्र भेटणे, पूर्ण करणे… See more （人、グループ）が集まる, （人）に会う, ～を出迎える… See more buluşmak, tanışmak, karşılaşmak… See more rencontrer, se rencontrer, se retrouver… See more quedar (amb), conèixer(-se), anar a esperar… See more ontmoeten, bij elkaar komen, kennismaken… See more முதல் முறையாக ஒருவரை பார்த்து பேச, வேண்டுமென்றே ஒருவருடன் ஒன்று சேர, எண்ணம் இல்லாமல் ஒருவருடன் சேர்ந்து வர… See more (किसी से पहली बार) मिलना, (किसी से इरादतन) मिलना, मुलाकात करना… See more મળવું, ઇરાદાપૂર્વક, હેતુપૂર્વક કોઈને મળવું… See more møde, træffe, støde på… See more möta, träffa, mötas… See more bertemu, mengadakan pertemuan, memperkenalkan… See more treffen, zusammenkommen, kennenlernen… See more møte, møtes, treffe… See more پہلی بار ملنا, ملاقات ہونا, کسی مقصد سے ملنا… See more зустрічати(ся), збиратися, сходитися… See more కలవటం, నెరవేర్చు, సంతృప్తిపరచు లేదా సాధించు… See more প্রথমবার কারও সঙ্গে দেখা হওয়া এবং কথা বলা, উদ্দেশ্যমূলকভবে দেখা-সাক্ষাৎ করা, দেখা হওয়া কোনো উদ্দেশ্য ছাড়াই… See more potkat, sejít se, seznámit se (s)… See more bertemu, mengadakan pertemuan, menemui… See more พบโดยบังเอิญ, จัดให้พบกัน, รู้จักเป็นครั้งแรก… See more gặp gỡ, họp, giới thiệu… See more spotykać (się), poznać (się), zbierać się… See more 만나다, (처음)만나다, 마중하다… See more incontrare, incontrarsi, conoscere… See more Need a translator?

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• track meet
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• meet-cute
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• meet up (with someone) phrasal verb
• meet with something phrasal verb
• meet up phrasal verb
• meet with sth phrasal verb

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• meet someone halfway idiom
• eyes meet idiom
• meet someone's eye idiom
• make ends meet idiom
• meet your maker idiom
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  • Verb 
    • meet (FOR THE FIRST TIME)
    • meet (COME TOGETHER)
    • meet (SATISFY)
    • meet (PLACE)
    • meet (TOUCH)
    • meet (EXPERIENCE)
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• American   
  • Verb 
    • meet (COME TOGETHER)
    • meet (BECOME FAMILIAR WITH)
    • meet (JOIN)
    • meet (FULFILL)
  • Noun 
    • meet (SPORTS EVENT)
• Business   
  • Verb 
    • meet
    • meet a deadline
    • meet (sb) halfway
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