noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a board meeting
▪ An emergency board meeting will have to be held.
a cabinet meeting
▪ A cabinet meeting will consider the government's environmental policies.
a committee meeting
▪ There's a committee meeting once a month.
a council meeting
▪ She had to attend a council meeting.
a meeting place
▪ The club was a meeting place for musicians.
a prayer meeting (=meeting at which people pray together)
a round of talks/negotiations/meetings
▪ A second round of talks got under way this week.
a staff meeting
▪ On Wednesdays there’s our weekly staff meeting.
a team meeting
▪ Hold team meetings to discuss problems.
address a meeting/conference etc
▪ He addressed an audience of 10,000 supporters.
an emergency meeting (=a meeting that is arranged quickly to discuss a very serious situation)
▪ The cabinet held an emergency meeting earlier today.
an urgent meeting
▪ Health chiefs have called an urgent meeting to discuss the problem.
annual report/meeting/conference
bathroom/dining room/meeting room etc
▪ the doctor’s waiting room
chance meeting/encounter/event etc
▪ A chance meeting with a journalist changed everything.
closed meeting
▪ a closed meeting
high-level meetings/talks/negotiations etc
▪ a high-level conference on arms control
impromptu speech/party/meeting etc
▪ The band gave an impromptu concert.
meeting place
▪ The pub is a popular meeting place for local teenagers.
meeting...repayments? (=paying)
▪ Do you worry about meeting your loan repayments?
race meeting
revival meeting
round-table discussion/meeting/talks
summit meeting
▪ a five-nation summit meeting
town meeting
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ If not re-appointed at such annual general meeting he shall vacate office at the conclusion thereof.
▪ The move is being discussed at today's annual meeting.
▪ The chant is certain to be sustained until the International Board announce their decision at their annual meeting in Auckland next April.
▪ Newcastle held their annual general meeting last night behind closed doors.
▪ Mr Nitch-Smith sat on the stage during Lonrho's annual general meeting in March.
▪ Everyone agrees that something will have to be seen to be done before the next annual general meeting in February.
▪ At their annual meeting in Swinbrook owners agreed that most Pugs belong to extroverts.
▪ Concern over the finances of the festival was voiced by treasurer of the Dolmetsch Foundation at the annual general meeting on Saturday.
extraordinary
▪ Signatures have been collected on a petition to call an extraordinary general meeting following Forest's struggling start to the season.
▪ The extraordinary general meeting which was due to take place on 10 October has been rescheduled to 17 October.
▪ Already he has called an extraordinary meeting of directors and supporters to discuss his radical new proposals.
▪ And the Press Council called senior editors to the first extraordinary meeting convened in its twenty-seven-year history to discuss the matter.
▪ He was threatening them with an extraordinary general meeting of the club.
further
▪ We only broke for the night on the promise of a further meeting next day together with social security officials.
▪ During the late afternoon I received another call summoning a further Cabinet meeting at 7.30 p.m.
▪ A further meeting was arranged to consider the training needs of potential leaders.
▪ In the absence of conclusive consensus, it was agreed to hold a further meeting in Madrid in April 1991.
▪ The court then has wide powers to revoke or suspend the approval, or give directions as to further meetings.
▪ A further meeting is to take place with Ulster Bank Management.
▪ In addition to my duties in the House, I shall be having further meetings later today.
general
▪ Signatures have been collected on a petition to call an extraordinary general meeting following Forest's struggling start to the season.
▪ The extraordinary general meeting which was due to take place on 10 October has been rescheduled to 17 October.
▪ If not re-appointed at such annual general meeting he shall vacate office at the conclusion thereof.
▪ These rights may be waived by the shareholders at a general meeting so that the new capital may be raised by means of a placing.
▪ Included in the programme will be the half-yearly general meeting of the association.
▪ Members of the arbitration court organized for the stock exchange are appointed by the general meeting for a fixed term.
▪ A Class 4 transaction will normally require the prior consent of the company in a general meeting.
▪ The general meeting of the shareholders of the target company may be called to decide upon defence measures.
public
▪ Nevertheless 50 percent had held public meetings, and one-third surveyed residents.
▪ Spokesman Frank Losco said the board held several public workshops and meetings regarding new diversions from the river.
▪ He will also tell the island's planning committee that it should go forward to public consultation and a public meeting.
▪ They started with a public meeting in St Peter's Fields - in Manchester, you know.
▪ After addressing a public meeting in support of extending the franchise to agricultural workers he had caught a severe cold.
▪ We've implored at public meetings all along that nobody takes the law into their own hands.
▪ Charged approximately 7.50 per hour for the public meeting, and a lesser amount for the exhibition space.
recent
▪ Some shareholders are unhappy with the running of the club and are concerned with the way the recent annual meeting was conducted.
▪ Duquette finally completed a deal that was originally suggested by the Philadelphia Phillies during the recent winter meetings.
▪ The investigation was requested after criticisms of the chairman's statement and the accounts by a shareholder at a recent company meeting.
▪ Agreement on the actions needed is beginning to emerge from these recent meetings of politicians, administrators and scientists.
▪ Nether Wyresdale Parish Council discussed the above application at their recent meeting.
regular
▪ Other initiatives include regular meetings between customers and management and more frequent and focused sales and technical visits to customers.
▪ We have a regular management committee meeting every second Monday.
▪ Schubert ran the regular team meetings, usually once a week.
▪ Gunnarson expressed confidence in the financial controls the city has in place, including regular meetings with center staff.
▪ Although the main problems have now been overcome, regular meetings continue to be held between site officials and neighbours.
▪ It publishes helpful leaflets and has local branches all over the country which have regular meetings and fund-raising events.
special
▪ Gwynedd County Council will consider the situation at a special meeting later this week.
▪ There will be a special meeting during the programme for those delegates who are Birmingham alumni.
▪ All that was needed was a fifty-signature petition, a special general meeting and a simple majority in favour of the proposition.
▪ This morning a special meeting was held to look to the future.
▪ These proposals have been approved by special general meetings of both institutes, and now only await Privy Council approval.
▪ Staff were called to a special meeting last night to be told of the proposed changes.
▪ But yesterday, the Daily Post brought a smile back to her face by arranging a special meeting with Mrs Jones.
▪ We arranged a special meeting between them in Chester and now they have become friends.
■ NOUN
board
▪ An emergency board meeting is called for November 28.
▪ He took hard knocks at two board meetings in June and August, and carried the discouraging words home to his father.
▪ What would be the point of my disagreeing with my husband at a board meeting?
▪ The idea first came up in Thoroughbred Owners of California board meetings in June.
▪ It was to have been discussed at the next Shanks &038; McEwan board meeting in early October.
▪ I only know him from board meetings.
▪ Gray and his assistant Tony McAndrew were dismissed after an 8am board meeting yesterday.
▪ The Hartlepool Mail told of one emergency board meeting hastily convened on a Skipton pavement.
business
▪ Please send in your suggestions quickly for a venue and ideas on the form the programme could take following the business meeting.
▪ Software to support business meetings even without a special aide present is gradually entering the marketplace.
▪ Open classes and a Ploughman's lunch will be followed by the business meeting.
▪ At Statham Lodge, we specialise in arranging the perfect business meeting or conference.
▪ Clearly he saw nothing odd about business meetings in the small hours.
▪ The afternoon will be devoted to the business meeting which is always very interesting.
▪ Force her to attend business meetings at your house!
▪ Was the excuse of a business meeting at Casa Sciorto merely his way of making sure she came to his party?
emergency
▪ Mr Jakes will face his toughest test yet when he confronts an emergency meeting of the central committee this week.
▪ Ministry of Agriculture officials held an emergency meeting in London to decide how to control the outbreak.
▪ The Fatah leadership was reported to be having an emergency meeting in Tunis as a result of the reports.
▪ His decision to stay at home for emergency meetings sent shock waves through the money markets and shares plunged.
▪ More than 50 business men and women showed their incredible resolve when they turned up for an emergency meeting in Craigavon yesterday.
▪ The Council has called an emergency meeting to decide what action to take.
▪ The killing caused a storm of protest and an emergency meeting was held to demand it be made safe.
▪ An emergency meeting of the Third Division's four-man board decided the club will continue to play at least into the New Year.
place
▪ Today the pubs are the haunt and meeting place of another type of dealer.
▪ As it happened I was the first to reach the meeting place, and soon, four others turned up.
▪ Reputed meeting place of Gunpowder Plot conspirators.
▪ This picture was sent abroad to markets and meeting places.
▪ Voice over It's a recruiting ground for the younger generation and a meeting place for old friends like Billy Connolly.
▪ The smart cocktail bar is an ideal meeting place with a pleasant atmosphere and the restaurant serves a good selection of food.
▪ Her husband Ian says traditional pubs - without loud music - are still an attraction and meeting place for locals.
race
▪ Now, there were two days on which the only race meeting were in the north.
▪ One could imagine her at a shires garden party or a race meeting.
▪ The first detailed record of a race meeting dates from 1709 when the course was levelled and improved.
▪ Exhibitions, cup finals, race meetings, and great royal occasions drew the excursionists to their local station.
▪ The school grounds had been used as a car park during yesterday's race meeting.
▪ The blue suit that no longer went to the Curragh race meetings or the Dublin Horse Show, was his evening wear.
summit
▪ The visit cleared the way for a summit meeting between the Communist Party leaders of the two countries.
▪ Romer, a patient practitioner of the consensus-building school of government, held a series of summit meetings.
▪ Two more summit meetings were planned before the end of the year.
▪ January 1990 summit meeting p. 37202.
▪ Mikhail Gorbachev achieved the same goal during the 1985 Geneva Summit meeting with Reagan.
town
▪ He flew right to the Lord Mayor and demanded a town meeting.
▪ A.. Theoretically, caucuses are more like town meetings and are less subject to advertising and other tactics of modern politics.
▪ The foundation organized thousands of town meetings around the country to pulse people on public policy issues and possible solutions.
▪ But the vast majority of voters involved in these town meetings did not hold dear the traditionally conservative definition.
▪ He addressed the issues they were concerned with in a series of well-publicized town meetings on radio and television.
▪ At least one House Republican freshman maintains a hoary political tradition by staging town meetings with his constituents.
▪ Gingrich was more combative than apologetic during appearances at three town meetings in his suburban Atlanta district.
■ VERB
address
▪ He was given an ancient, unreliable car and in this he made long journeys and addressed crowded meetings.
▪ He also addressed innumerable public meetings and spent two memorable week ends at Oxford.
▪ Missionaries were brought in to address the meeting on the advantages of a mission education.
▪ He was thus involved in extensive travelling throughout the District, addressing meetings of branches, trade unions and co-operative societies.
▪ My noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State addressed a meeting of farmers in my constituency.
▪ There was then a deep distrust throughout the party. as Law discovered in 1920: Bonar addressed a mass meeting.
▪ After addressing a public meeting in support of extending the franchise to agricultural workers he had caught a severe cold.
agree
▪ Nevertheless, everyone agreed that the meetings were productive; at least, that was the word they used.
▪ Unable to pay, he was being harrassed by them, but had agreed to a meeting near Crowthorne.
▪ I was surprised by how quickly he agreed to the meeting, as though he had some sort of obligation towards me.
▪ By mid-February all factions had apparently agreed to a Jakarta meeting, but no date had been set.
▪ Instead, at Orléans in November, a truce was agreed until another meeting at Attigny the following May.
▪ Either: As agreed at our initial meeting, we would need to inform your auditors of this appointment.
▪ Now she didn't regret agreeing to a meeting.
arrange
▪ Paul, I will write to you when I may and somehow we will arrange a meeting.
▪ While a patient in a mental hospital, he arranges surreal meetings where he whips her verbally and psychologically.
▪ The police suggested he arrange a meeting.
▪ Mrs Rowling hoped to arrange the meetings on behalf of church groups in the town.
▪ We will arrange and chair meetings between potential purchasers and the directors as appropriate.
▪ They then arranged the next meeting for a week later, Thursday, 21st May, 1857, and adjourned.
attend
▪ Since 1997, participating countries have been attending annual meetings to decide on the rules for implementing Kyoto.
▪ The 20 pupils attending the meetings are ages 5-12.
▪ Fellowships will not be awarded to attend scientific meetings.
▪ I read reports about this case, attended meetings where the evidence was discussed.
▪ Gedge largely preferred late night debates to attending stolid committee meetings in upstairs pub rooms or pushing by-election leaflets through doors.
▪ If you are looking for new sites and new friends please come down and attend one of our meetings.
▪ Participation would involve attending a meeting once a month and reflecting the views and experiences of their community to the group.
▪ Some 213 members attended the ballot meeting.
call
▪ He called the meeting to discuss an expedition at silver level.
▪ It has always been my intention to call a public meeting for all interested parties once we have something definite to report.
▪ Roberts called a meeting of the Town Council and he and Cross asked the police to start an investigation.
▪ As chairman you are responsible for calling the meeting, holding it together, and devising an effective way of working.
▪ The local Nalgo branch has called a general meeting for tomorrow when members will be balloted on whether to withdraw their labour.
▪ Staff were called to a special meeting last night to be told of the proposed changes.
▪ The Council has called an emergency meeting to decide what action to take.
▪ He called meetings to solicit their views and thus began his own experiments with what was effectively community architecture.
discuss
▪ Any concerns about the proposals will be discussed at a meeting of the Environmental Health Department next week.
▪ But health watchdogs and hospital managers may to seek further assurances when contracts are discussed at a meeting next week.
▪ Solutions will be discussed at the next meeting of the council's environmental protection committee.
▪ More comments followed the amended drafts which were circulated and discussed at open meetings in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
▪ Three themes were pinpointed and discussed in subsequent meetings.
follow
▪ Please send in your suggestions quickly for a venue and ideas on the form the programme could take following the business meeting.
▪ Again, a short lecture on different structural forms was followed by subgroup meetings to propose various alternatives for Mega.
▪ Open classes and a Ploughman's lunch will be followed by the business meeting.
▪ The impression you gave that I provided your reporter with new information following the meeting is totally false.
▪ The unusually strong words follow a meeting of the Joint Liason Group in London late last month.
▪ No law had been broken until the demonstrators disobeyed the order to disperse, following the meeting in Duke Street.
▪ A notice will appear following the March committee meeting.
▪ Ferranti was unchanged at 57.5p following a meeting with institutional shareholders.
hold
▪ The firm holds all its meetings in the open, allowing anybody to drop in.
▪ The Permanent Council will explore the possibility of holding informal meetings on the issues mentioned in the two preceding paragraphs.
▪ Nevertheless 50 percent had held public meetings, and one-third surveyed residents.
▪ In May 1953 he proposed a meeting of East-West leaders and in 1954 wanted to hold a personal meeting with Malenkov.
▪ We can't hold meetings or travel freely.
▪ He held meetings - the first of their kind - with government leaders in each of the four countries.
▪ We also hold regular meetings of volunteers to discuss issues of concern and encourage one another.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(it's been) nice meeting/talking to you
extraordinary meeting/session etc
▪ Already he has called an extraordinary meeting of directors and supporters to discuss his radical new proposals.
▪ And the Press Council called senior editors to the first extraordinary meeting convened in its twenty-seven-year history to discuss the matter.
▪ The announcement came two hours before an extraordinary meeting of Bryant shareholders that had been expected to approve the merger with Beazer.
make the meeting/the party/Tuesday etc
summon a meeting/conference etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ According to people who attended the meeting, Ms. Robins refused to answer any questions about the deal.
▪ After a chance meeting at the airport, Annie was reunited with her brother.
▪ Her affair with Harmon started with a chance meeting followed by a few casual phone calls.
▪ I'm having a meeting with my client tomorrow to go over the case.
▪ I was in meetings all morning and didn't get a chance to look at your proposal.
▪ Our first meeting was in January, and I didn't see Martin again till May or June.
▪ Peter's in London for a business meeting.
▪ San Diego won their first meeting this season 21-13.
▪ Sorry I can't come - I have to go to a meeting.
▪ The committee will hold another meeting Wednesday to discuss the funding crisis.
▪ The principal has called a meeting for 4.00.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He therefore received a rather cool reception from Oliver Cromwell and was never once invited to join the army council meetings.
▪ It was used for meetings and conferences of magicians.
▪ Myers' staff has also organized more than 1, 000 round-table meetings with women across the country.
▪ Neighbourhood groups were invited to nominate a representative to attend relevant council meetings.
▪ One of the issues in his last re- election campaign was that his eyelids frequently drooped during meetings.
▪ She wondered if she could stage an apparently accidental meeting with Veronica.
▪ The Buklod Centre was set up to work with these women through educational courses, seminars and meetings.
▪ They attend meetings for the same reason.