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Collocations for meet - noun

ADJECTIVE

gymnastics, race, swim, track
hunt (BrE)
championship
big, major
dual
a dual meet against Canada
spring, summer, etc.
swap
a swap meet for collectors of Star Trek memorabilia

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VERB + meet

hold
This year's meet was held in Anchorage, Alaska.
attend, go to
I can't go to your track meet after school tomorrow.
miss
Brooke missed the meet due to illness.
win
Sam's team won the track meet.

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meet + NOUN

record
Both scores were meet records.

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PREPOSITION

at a/the meet
I swam faster at the last meet.
Did you buy it at the swap meet?

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Collocations for meet - verb

1. come together

ADVERB

first
the place where they had first met
regularly
once
never
eventually, finally
When these two finally met, the connection was electric.
briefly
privately, secretly
face-to-face, in person, personally
The three sisters rarely meet in person, but spend hours on the phone.
online
an interactive site where people can meet online

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VERB + meet

arrange to
chance to, happen to
A year or so later I happened to meet him again.

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PREPOSITION

at
We met the next day at a local bar.
for
I arranged to meet her for lunch.
with
Management will meet with union representatives next week.
I met up with my friends in town.

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PHRASES

look forward to meeting sb
I look forward to meeting you next week.
nice to meet you (esp. AmE), pleased to meet you (esp. BrE) (= a greeting used when you meet sb for the first time)

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2. satisfy sth

ADVERB

head-on
They were determined to meet the challenge head-on.

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VERB + meet

be able to, can
be unable to, fail to
He had failed to meet his performance targets.
be designed to, be tailored to
The course is designed to meet the needs of young learners.

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3. sb's eyes/gaze/look

ADVERB

squarely, unflinchingly, without flinching
Leonora met his gaze without flinching.
briefly

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PREPOSITION

across
Their eyes met across the crowded room.

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Meet is used with these nouns as the subject:
assembly, association, cabinet, committee, conference, council, delegation, eye, gaze, glance, lip, parliament

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Meet is used with these nouns as the object:
acquaintance, approval, arrival, aspiration, boyfriend, budget, challenge, claim, commitment, condition, cost, criterion, criticism, deadline, death, debt, definition, delegation, demand, demise, deputation, destiny, duty, ear, end, enemy, expectation, expenditure, expense, eye, fate, gaze, girlfriend, guideline, hero, husband, idol, liability, milestone, mission, need, neighbour, objection, objective, obligation, official, opposition, order, panel, payment, people, pope, press, projection, qualification, quota, realtor, reception, regulation, repayment, representative, request, requirement, resistance, responsibility, road, schedule, shortage, specification, standard, target, taste, threat, threshold, train, want, wife, wish

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