meet with
Verb
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Verb
meet with
- (chiefly, US, Canada) To have a meeting with (someone).
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 239:
- ‘They want to meet with you at the Annexe as soon as possible. I'm to ring back by yesterday.’
- ‘They want what?’
- ‘To meet you. But they use the preposition.’
- ‘Do they? Do they really? Good Lord. I suppose it's the German influence. Or is it old English? Meet with. Well I must say.’ And he lumbered off to the bathroom to shave.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 239:
- To encounter; to experience.
- The proposal met with stiff opposition.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
- Dorothy told the Witch all her story: how the cyclone had brought her to the Land of Oz, how she had found her companions, and of the wonderful adventures they had met with.
- To answer (something) with; to respond to (something) with.
- They met the proposal with stiff opposition.
- The proposal was met with stiff opposition.
- (ergative) The proposal met with stiff opposition.
- To strike (something).
- His face met with a punch harder than a punch should be.
- To contact or touch (something).
- The baseboard met with the chimney stones very crudely.
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