Collocations for "meet"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "meet" in context.
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meet
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- meet me [the president, his parents]
- I'll meet you [at nine, at the coffee shop, there]
- meeting [a friend, his lover]
- meet [the staff, your customers]
- meet with your [boss, professor]
- meet up with your [friends, coworkers]
- meet up for [drinks, dinner]
- meet for [coffee, dinner, sex]
- they meet [on Friday, every Tuesday]
- meet at the [airport, office, club, restaurant]
- meet in [person, public]
- meet to [discuss, decide, debate, have dinner]
- meet and greet [their fans, parents]
- meet people with similar [needs, desires, goals]
- meet other [singles, people, students]
- pleased to meet you
- we first met [when, back in]
- the first time we met
- we've already met
- met through [family, friends, a mutual friend]
- meet the [needs, expectations, requirements] of
- meet your [standards, criteria, targets]
- meet or [exceed, surpass, beat]
- [must, have to] meet
- [helps, assists] in meeting
- the two [roads, highways, lines] meet
- the [lines] meet at [an intersection, a point, an angle, a right angle]
- has gone to meet his maker
- a [national, high school, professional, regional, major] meet
- [an athletics, a track, a decathlon, a race, a swim] meet
- a [national] [athletics] meet
- [hold, host, arrange, televise] [an athletics] meet
- [a night, a day, an evening, a weekend] meet
- [pulled out of, withdrew from, confirmed for] the meet
- won her [race, event] at the meet
- the meet [line-up, competitors, results, runners]
- is holding a meet-and-greet [for, in, to]
'meet' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Friday
- Monday
- Pope
- Saturday
- Thursday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- accommodation
- adapt
- adequate
- advisor
- agreed
- almighty
- applicant
- appointment
- arcade
- around
- arrange
- arrangement
- auction
- awesome
- bachelor
- balance
- bike
- blessing
- boyfriend
- briefly
- buyer
- cafeteria
- café
- camp
- capacity
- celebrity
- central
- certification
- chance
- changing
- charming
- condition
- consistently
- counterpart
- criterion
- custom
- deadline
- delegate
- delight
- demand
- deputy
- design
- determined