Meaning

To make contact (with someone) while in proximity..

Definitions by Sense

1. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
2. (Of groups) To come together.
3. To make physical or perceptual contact.
4. To satisfy; to comply with.
5. (intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
6. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
7. To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
8. (sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.

Example Sentences

This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.

Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.

1967, Northern Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) House of Commons Official Report In this instance he has chosen an accountant. I suppose that it will be possible for an accountant to make the figures meet.

The eye met a horrid sight. He met his fate.

Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.

[…] And all we met was fair and good, ⁠And all was good that Time could bring, […]

‘I’m planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui . . .’

track meet

Word Forms

• meets
• meeting
• met
• meeter
• meetest
• mete

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Use meet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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