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Meeting engagement

In warfare, a meeting engagement, or encounter battle, is a combat action that occurs when a moving force, incompletely deployed for battle, engages an enemy at an unexpected time and place.

Usage examples of "meeting engagement".

When that happens, you will find yourself involved in a meeting engagement in which they, operating on their own territory, will have the advantage.

But the company probably would have been lost if we'd settled into a meeting engagement on that ground.

What we have to do is seek a meeting engagement with their main fleet and stop it, that's the only viable option left open to us.