I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a board meeting
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An emergency board meeting will have to be held.
a cabinet meeting
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A cabinet meeting will consider the government's environmental policies.
a committee meeting
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There's a committee meeting once a month.
a committee meets (= has a meeting )
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The environmental health committee will meet again next Wednesday.
a council meeting
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She had to attend a council meeting.
a meeting place
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The club was a meeting place for musicians.
a prayer meeting (= meeting at which people pray together )
a staff meeting
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On Wednesdays there’s our weekly staff meeting.
a team meeting
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Hold team meetings to discuss problems.
address a meeting/conference etc
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He addressed an audience of 10,000 supporters.
an emergency meeting (= a meeting that is arranged quickly to discuss a very serious situation )
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The cabinet held an emergency meeting earlier today.
an urgent meeting
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Health chiefs have called an urgent meeting to discuss the problem.
annual report/meeting/conference
bathroom/dining room/meeting room etc
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the doctor’s waiting room
chance meeting/encounter/event etc
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A chance meeting with a journalist changed everything.
closed meeting
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a closed meeting
comply with/meet/conform to regulations
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Hotel kitchens must comply with these regulations.
face/tackle/meet sth head-on
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The police are trying to tackle car crime head-on.
honour/meet a commitment (= do what you promised to do )
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Will they honour their commitment to a ceasefire?
impromptu speech/party/meeting etc
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The band gave an impromptu concert.
meet a challenge (= deal with one )
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Here are a few tips to help you meet the challenges of university life.
meet a deadline (= finish something by a deadline )
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Everyone's working extremely hard to meet the deadline.
meet a fate
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The beautiful old building met a sad fate when it was sold off to property developers.
meet a requirement (= have or do what is needed )
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We finally found a house that seemed to meet all of our requirements.
meet a target (= achieve what you want to achieve )
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The government wants to meet its target of building three million new homes by 2020.
meet a threat (= deal with it )
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We must transform our armed forces to meet emerging threats.
meet sb's objections (= change something so that someone will no longer object )
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He altered the plans to meet the objections of community leaders.
meet sb’s gaze (= look at someone who is looking at you )
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He said nothing, but met her gaze.
meet sb’s stare (= look back at them )
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Alan met Susan’s outraged stare calmly.
meet up for a chat
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Sometimes we go to the cinema or just meet up for a chat.
meet with a positive etc response (= get it )
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The change met with a mixed response from employees.
meet with a warm etc reception formal
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They met with a chilly reception from my mother.
meet (with) criticism (= be criticized )
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His theory met with harsh criticism from colleagues.
meet (with) opposition/run into opposition (= face opposition )
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A new tax would meet a lot of opposition.
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The Bill ran into opposition in the House of Lords.
meet (with) resistance ( also encounter resistance formal ) (= be resisted )
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Attempts to modify the curriculum have met with strong resistance in many colleges.
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The troops advanced swiftly, encountering only minor resistance.
meet with sb’s approval
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This type of dancing does not meet with their approval.
meet with success (= be successful )
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We are disappointed that this round of negotiations has not met with success.
meet your death formal (= die )
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He met his death tragically while on holiday in Greece.
meet your doom (= die in an unpleasant way )
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At the end of the movie, the bad guys met their doom.
meet/bear the cost of sth (= pay for something, especially with difficulty )
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His family were unable to meet the cost of his operation.
meet/face your nemesis
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In the final he will meet his old nemesis, Roger Federer.
meet/fulfil/honour an obligation (= do something that you have a duty to do )
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The company has been unable to meet its financial obligations.
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All member states must fulfil their obligations according to the EC treaty.
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The government failed to honour its obligations under the terms of the agreement.
meet/greet sth with laughter (= react to something by laughing )
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Her remarks were greeted with mocking laughter.
meeting place
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The pub is a popular meeting place for local teenagers.
meeting...repayments? (= paying )
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Do you worry about meeting your loan repayments?
meet/keep up the payments (on sth) (= be able to make regular payments )
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He was having trouble meeting the interest payments.
meet/live up to your ideals (= be as good as you think something should be )
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The regime is not living up to its supposed democratic ideals.
meet/reach a standard
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Many food businesses fail to meet basic standards of hygiene.
meet/satisfy demand (= supply as much as people need or want )
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There are reports that the company cannot produce enough to meet demand.
meet/satisfy/fulfil a condition (= do what has been agreed )
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In order to get a state pension, you must satisfy certain conditions.
meet/satisfy/fulfil the criteria
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Does your experience meet the criteria for the job?
met...specifications
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The bolts met all the engineering specifications .
race meeting
reach/meet an objective (= achieve an objective )
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We need to control spending in order to meet our financial objectives.
revival meeting
round-table discussion/meeting/talks
summit meeting
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a five-nation summit meeting
swap meet
tailor sth to meet/suit sb’s needs/requirements
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The classes are tailored to suit learners’ needs.
the cabinet meets
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The cabinet will meet again on April 30th.
town meeting
track meet
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
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Anyway, as I said, we won't be meeting again .
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We agreed to meet again later.
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The judges meet again on Tuesday, 7 November to choose the winner of the Booker Prize 2000.
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On the day of her departure Weston suggests that they may meet again and asks if that would please her.
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When the counsellors were ready, they met again with the king and agreed their proposals.
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Monetary authorities of those nations are expected to meet again around Jan. 20.
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She did not imagine that they would ever meet again .
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We arrange to meet again after the concert to share another taxi back to the hotel.
ever
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His son-in-law was the least spontaneous person he'd ever met .
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He was the most ingenious fisherman, the most resourceful craftsman, and the most competent sailor whom I had ever met .
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She is the least self-conscious creature I have ever met .
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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met .
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If two men ever met , there would be an almighty, violent battle.
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If she went to Milan this might be the last time they would ever meet .
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Nor did Bo ever meet his superior, who passed him messages through an intermediary.
never
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I never met Joe in terms of no energy.
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I had never met Uncle Willie.
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When they disobeyed they were transformed into pillars of rock and placed where they could see each other but never meet .
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Some one calculatingly vicious enough to mail death to people he had never met .
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They had heard of Oyston, who had originally been contacted as a cold call, but they had never met him.
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I've never met a single one who didn't migrate here for work.
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Previously, Euclidean geometry had stated that parallel lines never meet .
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He had an agent, but they had never met .
■ NOUN
board
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A final decision is expected at next month's board meeting .
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Peter Peterson, the president of Lehman, came out t6 a Harvester board meeting to express his distaste.
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The Conservative parliamentary selection board meets three or four times a year.
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First, the board of directors must meet and vote to pay a dividend oniy the board has this power.
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The ferries' board of directors meets tomorrow.
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The board meeting next Wednesday will be the big test.
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Remember when Wilkinson hit that rough spot in the board meeting ?
challenge
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He met this challenge by manufacturing a sense of drama through his theatrical style of rule and through his ambitious policies.
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However, meeting these kinds of challenges develops your creativity and positions you well for the job market of the future.
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Clearly those who run the global economy consider success in that area the prerequisite to meeting all other challenges .
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How then do these two books meet the challenges imposed by essentially complex legislation?
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The president, Arista, Bustamante, and other leaders in the field displayed great energy and vigor in meeting these challenges .
chance
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This was a great chance to meet the family.
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A chance meeting the group had with Sen.
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Then five years ago, by chance I met another women at a trade conference.
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He was black, traveling in a white world, and the chances to meet other gay men were limited.
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But whatever age, Stow offers them the chance to meet up with old friends and catch up on the gossip.
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Sixty selected filmmakers, out of 225 who applied, will get the chance to meet 40 visiting producers.
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Its tip can stay alive and grow for many days, thereby increasing its chances of meeting a host.
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I get a chance to meet the fans close up.
committee
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Middlesbrough Council's policy and resources committee meets today to set the borough's tax level for 1992-3.
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In the meantime, the House ethics committee will be meeting on punishment for Gingrich.
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I trust you will bring the above comments to the attention of your committee when they meet to discuss this application.
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Katherine having lunch with him after the management committee meeting last Wednesday.
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All subject committees meet on the same day.
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The Committee met to consider the Covenant on March 4, 1992.
cost
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The theatre, which caters for touring companies, had a budget of £390,000 to meet its costs during this financial year.
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The Trotskyist movement has long advocated a sliding scale of wages to meet the rising cost of living.
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Individual member organisations meet the cost of their delegates.
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Barnardo's had to draw £1.7 million from its reserves to meet costs .
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It came with no endowment to meet the cost of conversion.
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The company will meet launch costs of some £2.5 million.
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The contractor is to meet the full cost .
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Many families now rely on a joint income to meet their living costs .
council
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But Council members began meeting in private the day before the full session.
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As for the Bundesbank, its policy-making council meets Thursday.
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But the pound will face another test on Thursday when the Bundesbank council meets .
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The city council met , discussed the issue, and eventually voted to go ahead.
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An announcement is made: The local tenants' council has a meeting planned for Friday.
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I would, therefore, like to invite you to the next meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council .
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On August 1, the City Council met to name a city street after him.
criteria
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Each of these users had to meet certain criteria .
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But there are no major studies that meet scientific criteria about the comparative medicinal benefits of smoked marijuana.
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We shall continue to meet the criteria laid down by the Department of Transport.
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In the examples given above, only the handpump meets these criteria , but not completely.
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He goes on to argue that the situational theory, the defence of established institutions, most closely meets these criteria .
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Abele also will provide prospective buyers with e-mail updates of new listings that meet their criteria .
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All the established associations are expected to meet the criteria , and so earn their members the right to call themselves organic.
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To have your mortgage insurance canceled, you must prove you meet criteria designed to show you are not likely to default.
deadline
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And you'd better get moving if you're going to meet the deadline .
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Shapiro said the commission will meet its June deadline in reporting to Clinton on the issue of human cloning.
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If you are unable to meet this deadline please let me know as soon as possible.
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Nell is your colleague, and you suspect she has never met a deadline in her life.
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This makes it highly unlikely that the council will be able to meet the three-month deadline on any site.
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Their work can be stressful, as they attempt to schedule work to meet deadlines .
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Working under pressure to meet a deadline had a motivating effect.
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Most work at least 40 hours a week and may work much longer on occasion to meet project deadlines .
demand
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The characteristic townsmen worked at a craft to meet purely local demands .
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Minimum operating levels are stockpiles of crude and refined products held by refiners that are considered adequate to meet average seasonal demand .
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I wonder if my pension will be increased to meet some of these demands ?
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Education, training and skills development is another way in which the government attempts to meet demands for labour.
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Booksellers are in the vanguard and many of them simply can not get enough books to meet demand .
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Only 17 forces have met Sir William's demand that they train staff fully in racial awareness and cultural diversity.
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The fact is no government can meet the insatiable demand for ever more sophisticated medical technology by an ageing population.
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The council spokesman also said there were not enough professional caterers in the area to meet demand .
end
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A more violent end meets an earlier pretender to verse, suitably violent as befits the rebel Jack Cade.
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At the end of the meeting she repeated her Big Promise.
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Many also have second or third jobs to make ends meet .
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Though near the top of her earning potential, she said she is forced to work extra jobs to make ends meet .
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That should be on the national Exchequer, not on those locally who are trying to make ends meet .
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To make ends meet , she works for a travel company and makes dumplings for a cafeteria.
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In the end Frank and I met of our own volition.
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At the end of the meeting Juanita told the woman about a sales contest promoting a new car polish in her region.
friend
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We met through mutual friends a couple months ago, and we see each other most weekends.
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Male speaker I've been juggling for about 5 months and it's a good place to meet new friends .
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Through the Pattens, Joe met many new friends , some highly influential, others merely famous.
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Perhaps you are going on an outing or meeting a friend .
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I have met all his friends , and I worked on his archives for six years.
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Although this particular occasion was rather marred by our mishap it was great to meet old friends again.
gaze
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She forced herself to meet his gaze .
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Jack looked down, afraid to meet his gaze .
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She sat at our feet in perfect composure, head high, her eyes never meeting my gaze .
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She was tense, almost afraid to breathe, almost afraid to meet his gaze .
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When Byrne looked back, Stephen could not meet his gaze .
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She said nothing, but she met his gaze fully and did not veil her own.
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She met his determined gaze and knew that avoiding him wasn't going to be easy.
goal
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But few states are meeting that goal .
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Create a list of clear tactics describing exactly how you plan to meet these goals .
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From this perspective law should be viewed as an instrument for meeting certain social goals .
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The Navy realized several years ago that several high-tech fields were not meeting recruitment and retention goals , he added.
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Here is how to make sure your home meets these goals .
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And perhaps unsurprisingly, substantial investors were more optimistic about their ability to maintain their standard or living and meet financial goals .
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Crooked veins bulge in his hulking neck as his tongue strains to meet its goal .
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The executives' pay is based on corporate performance, meeting business goals and stock price, a spokesman said.
need
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The project provides a control and information system that meets the needs of the Barcelona company for the foreseeable future.
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Decisions about the development of a local community should reflect local preferences and meet local needs .
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It should be designed to meet the readers' needs and to solve their problems.
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One of its major components is a comprehensive library media program designed to meet their needs .
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Assessments are about finding out what kinds of needs people have and what services would best meet those needs.
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That would belie the complexity of using power and influence flexibly to meet the needs of each situation.
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The problem in meeting this need is not lack of resources, technologies or knowledge, but of political will and organisation.
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Originally, the Programme supplemented existing central and local government schemes designed to meet special needs in urban areas.
objective
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There is also general recognition that for many years prisons have failed to meet these objectives .
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The range is 1.5 percent of base salary for meeting one or two objectives to 5 percent for five or more.
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The difficult part - at least before creating the advertising itself - is to evolve a creative strategy to meet the objectives .
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How does the actual cost compare with the planned cost for meeting the objective ?
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Training is available in telephone skills, letter writing, handling meetings or presentations, to help you meet your business objectives .
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General managers and top executives work to ensure that their organizations meet these objectives .
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Successful bids by management-employee teams would also help to meet the competition objective by establishing independent, locally based companies.
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Systematic implies that the steps which are taken to meet objectives should fit together as a cohesive whole.
obligation
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Such personal guarantees become effective if and when the company itself can not meet its financial obligations .
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To sustain the boomers while meeting its other obligations , the government will have to borrow vast amounts of money.
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But Virgin executives are privately convinced that meeting this contractual obligation will be impossible because so many major issues remain unresolved.
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All across the country I found promoters who were not willing to meet their contractual obligations .
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Evidence suggests that some LEAs have been redistributing resources to meet their obligations under the 1981 Act.
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N., meet our obligations and continue to spur real progress.
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The latter will always heavily tilt the balance towards finally meeting one's obligations to the employer.
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Short-term liquidity refers to the ability of the firm to meet its current obligations as they fall due.
opposition
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The attempt to legitimise Renville met widespread opposition .
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In each so-called cooperative the attention paid to social issues, work conditions, and community welfare was meeting strong opposition .
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These are likely to meet with opposition on the grounds of spoiling favourite views.
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Still the plan met intense opposition .
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That met a lot of opposition from different sources.
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The levy, which began on January 1, has met with fierce opposition from the trade unions.
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Before they start down the court to meet the opposition , they warm up.
requirement
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The proposed system is designed to meet these requirements , and will be altered in line with future developments.
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It operates under exemptions that allow it to receive federal aid without meeting the same requirements as other states' programs.
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This should be regarded as a prototyping system, primarily intended to meet the requirements of our microscopists.
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Some applicants who meet the requirements are rejected because they write for the same market as an existing member.
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Places that can not meet these new requirements by January 1991 may consequently lose a Crown.
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The Truman Doctrine met that requirement .
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It is also evolving rapidly to meet modern requirements .
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Officials in Maine also rejected Reform Party petitions because they allegedly failed to meet state technical requirements .
standard
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The containers meet current international standards , considered inadequate by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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But on another plane, there was a certain determined grumbling, a cranky insistence that they were not meeting their standards .
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In return for meeting these standards the exchange has insulation from liability for negligence to specific persons.
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The usual choice is a helmet that meets the safety standards for bicycles.
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Issues hence no longer meet the high standards of credit quality required by the eurobond market.
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The volunteer has to meet all relevant environmental standards , of course.
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To meet these standards the worker needs total concentration and freedom from time pressure.
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Patent applications must meet a higher legal standard to be granted and offer a different legal protection than do copyrights.
success
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Much thought is required to smooth the path if this scheme hopes to meet with success .
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But he met with little success .
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So far, his efforts to set up a maintenance fund for Bemersyde have met with limited success .
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I was involved, and I was meeting with success .
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To date, many housing associations' rural ventures have not met with marked success .
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Neither half of that balancing act has yet met with success .
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Trials of interferon in viral disease have certainly met with some success .
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Meanwhile, Jeffries and black leaders met with no success when they tried to subdue the rioters.
summit
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The vice-president, in the heart of government in Washington, offered Mr Bush a deal and proposed an immediate summit meeting .
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It was true that his schedule had not been designed with a surprise summit meeting in mind.
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He said he hoped that the two countries would strengthen relations and hold a summit meeting at least once a year.
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Eleven days later, Reagan arrived in Moscow for his second summit meeting in less than six months.
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None the less, Monk and Coltrane devotees will savor this summit meeting .
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On July 18, 1955, the summit meeting began.
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This Summit meeting was supposed to solve critical issues facing the Lakers and Houston Rockets.
target
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It is for the local management of the service to determine the most effective deployment of resources to meet performance targets .
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I have to tell them that the only way we can meet our targets is an absolute freeze.
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Headquarters motivates managers to meet targets in time-honoured style: carrot and stick.
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Had they met this target then perhaps the Aids crisis would not have bitten so deeply.
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The good news was that chief executive Crispin Davis insisted the company was on track to meet targets for 2002.
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Forward sales for completion in the first half of this year are sufficient to meet internal targets , Mr Maunders said.
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Officials calculated that the council would have to invest £500,000 per year to meet the target .
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High offer ratios often reflect the relative difficulty of meeting the targets for a small number of fields.
week
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I met Bob the first week I was at university.
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Level One meets four days a week .
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Parliament is due to meet this week .
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Jim had been agonizing over the meeting all week .
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Micheline sounded excited to hear from me and I was invited to the group's meeting a few weeks later.
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Participants met once a week at Penny Scaggs' home or at one of several Austin churches.
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They have the opportunity to do so when they meet next week , ironically in New Zealand.
■ VERB
attend
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About 300 people attended a similar town meeting in Manchester earlier in the day.
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In the past, McDougal has repeatedly denied that Clinton attended any such meeting .
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Jean wanted to pick you up herself, but she had to attend a faculty meeting .
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Fujimori is in Washington to attend an international meeting on small business lending and did not have an appointment with Clinton.
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Vickie makes a note to raise the issue when she attends the management meeting .
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After the client attends a meeting , the therapist should ask about his or her experience and reactions.
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Those attending will meet with the city's lobbyists and attend a luncheon with Gov.
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Robinson attended a meeting at which the developers held a presentation about their project for neighborhood residents.
fail
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Belmont Bleaching and Dyeing has failed consistently to meet legal standards since 1988 but has not been prosecuted.
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If any Government fails to meet either of these conditions then it will be replaced by another expected to meet both.
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Also yesterday, Borland and Digital Equipment Corp. said earnings would fail to meet expectations.
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Kinnock fails to meet them by a huge margin.
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If a professor fails to meet his classes without a justifiable reason, his salary is accordingly reduced.
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If a company fails to meet one of these it is excluded from the portfolio.
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If we fail to meet any of these timescales we will pay you £5.00 for every complete day your supply is interrupted.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(I'm) pleased to meet you
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A forty-year-old actor with great presence warmly shakes William's hand Male lead Pleased to meet you.
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However, Mrs Singh was pleased to meet her and generally liked all the teachers and what she saw.
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I am so pleased to meet you.
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We would be very pleased to meet you and feel sure that we can offer you an interesting and worthwhile programme.
(it's been) nice meeting/talking to you
come to/meet a sticky end
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I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends.
extraordinary meeting/session etc
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Already he has called an extraordinary meeting of directors and supporters to discuss his radical new proposals.
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And the Press Council called senior editors to the first extraordinary meeting convened in its twenty-seven-year history to discuss the matter.
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The announcement came two hours before an extraordinary meeting of Bryant shareholders that had been expected to approve the merger with Beazer.
make ends meet
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My mother had to work 12 hours a day in a factory just to make ends meet.
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Old people on pensions are finding it hard to make ends meet.
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With the car repairs, I just don't see how we're going to make ends meet this month.
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As a small company of 15 boys we find it hard to make ends meet.
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Non-college women with children struggling to make ends meet have a different agenda from that of single college-educated women with hot careers.
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She is unemployed and depends upon benefits to make ends meet.
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The most deprived sections of the population are finding it hard to make ends meet.
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They had no machinery for making ends meet.
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Though near the top of her earning potential, she said she is forced to work extra jobs to make ends meet.
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To make ends meet, she works for a travel company and makes dumplings for a cafeteria.
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What she saw around her in the neighborhood where we both grew up was divorce and the struggle to make ends meet.
meet your Waterloo
meet your maker
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At last the father fell down on to the pavement completely exhausted and convinced he was going to meet his maker there and then.
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I constantly sought cover from a host of opportunities to meet my Maker .
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I guess Big Willie means for you to meet your Maker .
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This, their last wish, was respected, and George and Joseph went to meet their maker hand in hand.
meeting of minds
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Also there would be no meeting of minds in such a procedure.
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But scriptwriter and narrator Indra Sinha said the video emphasised the meeting of minds as well as bodies.
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He says that he hopes that there will be a meeting of minds on how to deal with traffic problems.
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Only if I used the example of all mankind's progress towards Paradise was there any meeting of minds.
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There was just no meeting of minds on the weapons issue.
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There was no trust between them, no meeting of minds.
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Why such a strange meeting of minds?
never the twain shall meet
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Generally, the streetwise dealers work in a separate camp from the more educated types, and never the twain shall meet.
nice to meet you
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Anna and William stand and shake hands formally Well, it was nice to meet you.
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But... it's very nice to meet you.
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It was nice to meet you.
the Met
the meeting
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The meeting was asked to address the problem of unemployment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Doug, I'd like you to meet my mother." "Oh, pleased to meet you, Mrs Haggerty."
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"Hello, my name is Alan." "Hi, Alan. My name's Cindy. Nice to meet you."
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"How did you two meet ?" "We were on the same exchange program in Madrid."
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Branford took us to meet a few of his colleagues.
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Carol and I first met at university.
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Dad said he'd meet our flight.
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Dave, meet my brother Tom.
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Did you ever get to meet her boyfriend?
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Does the tap water meet government health standards?
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Have you ever met his wife?
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I'd met him a couple of times before.
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I'd like you all to meet my girlfriend, Claudia.
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I'll meet you outside the theatre at 7 o'clock.
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I met him in the street, and we decided to go out for lunch.
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I met Jill at the bus stop this morning.
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I met this really nice lady on the bus yesterday.
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I used to meet her every week to discuss my work.
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I was met by a company representative at the bus station.
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I was 15 years old when I met Andrew.
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Janet and Pete first met at a mutual friend's cocktail party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It became a cozy, happy center of operations, but Alvin insisted on meeting people downstairs or somewhere else entirely.
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Mr Freeman said he would come to the town after meeting an all-party delegation from the council in London.
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Stuart had met Charlie during the winter.
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The Doles met, she explained, at the end of his hospital stay for severe war injuries.
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We checked out hundreds of hotels but only found thirty-five or forty that met the basic-facilities criteria.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
swap
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Another athlete said he looked as if he shopped at a swap meet .
win
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Since her recovery, she has won a major meet on the three-meter.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(I'm) pleased to meet you
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A forty-year-old actor with great presence warmly shakes William's hand Male lead Pleased to meet you.
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However, Mrs Singh was pleased to meet her and generally liked all the teachers and what she saw.
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I am so pleased to meet you.
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We would be very pleased to meet you and feel sure that we can offer you an interesting and worthwhile programme.
(it's been) nice meeting/talking to you
come to/meet a sticky end
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I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends.
extraordinary meeting/session etc
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Already he has called an extraordinary meeting of directors and supporters to discuss his radical new proposals.
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And the Press Council called senior editors to the first extraordinary meeting convened in its twenty-seven-year history to discuss the matter.
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The announcement came two hours before an extraordinary meeting of Bryant shareholders that had been expected to approve the merger with Beazer.
make ends meet
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My mother had to work 12 hours a day in a factory just to make ends meet.
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Old people on pensions are finding it hard to make ends meet.
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With the car repairs, I just don't see how we're going to make ends meet this month.
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As a small company of 15 boys we find it hard to make ends meet.
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Non-college women with children struggling to make ends meet have a different agenda from that of single college-educated women with hot careers.
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She is unemployed and depends upon benefits to make ends meet.
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The most deprived sections of the population are finding it hard to make ends meet.
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They had no machinery for making ends meet.
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Though near the top of her earning potential, she said she is forced to work extra jobs to make ends meet.
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To make ends meet, she works for a travel company and makes dumplings for a cafeteria.
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What she saw around her in the neighborhood where we both grew up was divorce and the struggle to make ends meet.
make the meeting/the party/Tuesday etc
meet your Waterloo
meet your maker
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At last the father fell down on to the pavement completely exhausted and convinced he was going to meet his maker there and then.
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I constantly sought cover from a host of opportunities to meet my Maker .
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I guess Big Willie means for you to meet your Maker .
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This, their last wish, was respected, and George and Joseph went to meet their maker hand in hand.
meeting of minds
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Also there would be no meeting of minds in such a procedure.
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But scriptwriter and narrator Indra Sinha said the video emphasised the meeting of minds as well as bodies.
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He says that he hopes that there will be a meeting of minds on how to deal with traffic problems.
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Only if I used the example of all mankind's progress towards Paradise was there any meeting of minds.
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There was just no meeting of minds on the weapons issue.
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There was no trust between them, no meeting of minds.
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Why such a strange meeting of minds?
never the twain shall meet
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Generally, the streetwise dealers work in a separate camp from the more educated types, and never the twain shall meet.
nice to meet you
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Anna and William stand and shake hands formally Well, it was nice to meet you.
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But... it's very nice to meet you.
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It was nice to meet you.
summon a meeting/conference etc
the Met
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a swim meet
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had trained furiously for the meet and was crushed when the doctor informed him that it would be lunacy to participate.
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It was there that Amelia saw her first Calilfornia air meet .
III. adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
make ends meet
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My mother had to work 12 hours a day in a factory just to make ends meet.
▪
Old people on pensions are finding it hard to make ends meet.
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With the car repairs, I just don't see how we're going to make ends meet this month.
▪
As a small company of 15 boys we find it hard to make ends meet.
▪
Non-college women with children struggling to make ends meet have a different agenda from that of single college-educated women with hot careers.
▪
She is unemployed and depends upon benefits to make ends meet.
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The most deprived sections of the population are finding it hard to make ends meet.
▪
They had no machinery for making ends meet.
▪
Though near the top of her earning potential, she said she is forced to work extra jobs to make ends meet.
▪
To make ends meet, she works for a travel company and makes dumplings for a cafeteria.
▪
What she saw around her in the neighborhood where we both grew up was divorce and the struggle to make ends meet.
make the meeting/the party/Tuesday etc
meet your Waterloo
meet your maker
▪
At last the father fell down on to the pavement completely exhausted and convinced he was going to meet his maker there and then.
▪
I constantly sought cover from a host of opportunities to meet my Maker .
▪
I guess Big Willie means for you to meet your Maker .
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This, their last wish, was respected, and George and Joseph went to meet their maker hand in hand.
meeting of minds
▪
Also there would be no meeting of minds in such a procedure.
▪
But scriptwriter and narrator Indra Sinha said the video emphasised the meeting of minds as well as bodies.
▪
He says that he hopes that there will be a meeting of minds on how to deal with traffic problems.
▪
Only if I used the example of all mankind's progress towards Paradise was there any meeting of minds.
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There was just no meeting of minds on the weapons issue.
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There was no trust between them, no meeting of minds.
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Why such a strange meeting of minds?
never the twain shall meet
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Generally, the streetwise dealers work in a separate camp from the more educated types, and never the twain shall meet.
summon a meeting/conference etc
the Met
the meeting
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The meeting was asked to address the problem of unemployment.