1 [C] an occasion when people come together to discuss or decide sth:
to have / hold / call / attend a meeting * The meeting will be held in the school hall. * a committee / staff meeting * What time is the meeting? * Helen will chair the meeting (= be in charge of it). * I'll be in a meeting all morning-can you take my calls? * a meeting of the United Nations Security Council * The meeting was postponed.
2 (the meeting) [sing.] the people at a meeting:
The meeting voted to accept the pay offer.
3 [C] a situation in which two or more people meet together, because they have arranged it or by chance:
At our first meeting I was nervous. * It was a chance meeting that would change my life. * He remembered their childhood meetings with nostalgia. * The meeting of father and son after so long was a joyous occasion.
4 [C] a sports event or set of races, especially for horses:
an athletics meeting * The horse has won at all of his previous meetings this season.
IDIOMS
a meeting of minds a close understanding between people with similar ideas, especially when they meet to do sth or meet for the first time:
a meeting of minds between the two artists
