meet

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noun (esp. AmE)

ADJECTIVE

▪ gymnastics, race, swim, track

▪ hunt (BrE)

▪ championship

▪ big, major

▪ dual

▪

a dual meet against Canada

▪ spring, summer, etc.

▪ swap

▪

a swap meet for collectors of Star Trek memorabilia

VERB + MEET

▪ hold

▪

This year's meet was held in Anchorage, Alaska.

▪ attend, go to

▪

I can't go to your track meet after school tomorrow.

▪ miss

▪

Brooke missed the meet due to illness.

▪ win

▪

Sam's team won the track meet.

MEET + NOUN

▪ record

▪

Both scores were meet records.

PREPOSITION

▪ at a/the meet

▪

I swam faster at the last meet.

▪

Did you buy it at the swap meet?

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verb

1 come together

ADVERB

▪ first

▪

the place where they had first met

▪ regularly

▪ once

▪ never

▪ eventually, finally

▪

When these two finally met, the connection was electric.

▪ briefly

▪ privately, secretly

▪ face-to-face, in person, personally

▪

The three sisters rarely meet in person, but spend hours on the phone.

▪ online

▪

an interactive site where people can meet online

VERB + MEET

▪ arrange to

▪ chance to, happen to

▪

A year or so later I happened to meet him again.

PREPOSITION

▪ at

▪

We met the next day at a local bar.

▪ for

▪

I arranged to meet her for lunch.

▪ with

▪

Management will meet with union representatives next week.

▪

I met up with my friends in town.

PHRASES

▪ look forward to meeting sb

▪

I look forward to meeting you next week.

▪ nice to meet you (esp. AmE), pleased to meet you (esp. BrE) (= a greeting used when you meet sb for the first time)

2 satisfy sth

ADVERB

▪ head-on

▪

They were determined to meet the challenge head-on.

VERB + MEET

▪ be able to, can

▪ be unable to, fail to

▪

He had failed to meet his performance targets.

▪ be designed to, be tailored to

▪

The course is designed to meet the needs of young learners.

3 sb's eyes/gaze/look

ADVERB

▪ squarely, unflinchingly, without flinching

▪

Leonora met his gaze without flinching.

▪ briefly

PREPOSITION

▪ across

▪

Their eyes met across the crowded room.

Meet is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑assembly, ↑association, ↑cabinet, ↑committee, ↑conference, ↑council, ↑delegation, ↑eye, ↑gaze, ↑glance, ↑lip, ↑parliament

Meet is used with these nouns as the object: ↑acquaintance, ↑approval, ↑arrival, ↑aspiration, ↑boyfriend, ↑budget, ↑challenge, ↑claim, ↑commitment, ↑condition, ↑cost, ↑criterion, ↑criticism, ↑deadline, ↑death, ↑debt, ↑definition, ↑delegation, ↑demand, ↑demise, ↑deputation, ↑destiny, ↑duty, ↑ear, ↑end, ↑enemy, ↑expectation, ↑expenditure, ↑expense, ↑eye, ↑fate, ↑gaze, ↑girlfriend, ↑guideline, ↑hero, ↑husband, ↑idol, ↑liability, ↑milestone, ↑mission, ↑need, ↑neighbour, ↑objection, ↑objective, ↑obligation, ↑official, ↑opposition, ↑order, ↑panel, ↑payment, ↑people, ↑pope, ↑press, ↑projection, ↑qualification, ↑quota, ↑realtor, ↑reception, ↑regulation, ↑repayment, ↑representative, ↑request, ↑requirement, ↑resistance, ↑responsibility, ↑road, ↑schedule, ↑shortage, ↑specification, ↑standard, ↑target, ↑taste, ↑threat, ↑threshold, ↑train, ↑want, ↑wife, ↑wish