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Phrase(s): meet with someone
to have a meeting with someone. • I will meet with all of them on Monday. • When can I meet with you?, Phrase(s): meet with something
1. [for someone] to experience something, such as an accident. • Poor Carlo met with a serious accident. • Henry always feared meeting with a horrible fate. 2. [for someone or something] to strike or touch something. • That board is supposed to meet perfectly with the surface of the wall. • Her head met with the top of the car a number of times during the journey. 3. to encounter some kind of response. • The proposal met with unexpected opposition. • Her speech was met with universal approval.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Encounter or experience, as in The housing bill met with their approval, or Drunk and homeless, he's bound to meet with a bad end. [Mid-1400s]
American Heritage Idioms