meeting
n. countablen. an event where a group of people come together to talk about something or make decisions. You usually have these at work or in a club.
n. a gathering of two or more people for the purpose of discussion, deliberation, or decision-making. Often used in professional or organizational contexts.
We have a team meeting every Monday morning.
The manager called a meeting to discuss the new project and assign tasks to each team member.
The board of directors scheduled an emergency meeting to address the sudden decline in quarterly profits and propose a restructuring plan.
From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”), Middle Low German mö̂tinge (“meeting”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.
From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English mētende, ġemētende, from Proto-Germanic mōtijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), equivalent to meet + -ing.
Commonly takes the verbs 'hold', 'call', or 'attend'.
I am in a meeting with 10 o'clockI have a meeting at 10 o'clockLearners often confuse the preposition 'at' for time with 'with' when thinking about the people involved in the meeting.