"meet with" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "meets with",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meeting with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "met with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
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      "form": "met with",
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
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          "name": "Canadian English",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 239:",
          "text": "‘They want to meet with you at the Annexe as soon as possible. I'm to ring back by yesterday.’\n‘They want what?’\n‘To meet you. But they use the preposition.’\n‘Do they? Do they really? Good Lord. I suppose it's the German influence. Or is it old English? Meet with. Well I must say.’ And he lumbered off to the bathroom to shave.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have a meeting with (someone)."
      ],
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        [
          "meeting",
          "meeting"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US, Canada) To have a meeting with (someone)."
      ],
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        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The proposal met with stiff opposition.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1758 [1752], “LXXII. Concerning Snakes.”, in The Natural History of Iceland […] , London, translation of Tilforladelige efterretninger om Island by Niels Horrebow, page 91:",
          "text": "No ſnakes of any kind are to be met with throughout the whole iſland.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:",
          "text": "Dorothy told the Witch all her story: how the cyclone had brought her to the Land of Oz, how she had found her companions, and of the wonderful adventures they had met with.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986 December 21, F. Jay Deacon, “Emotionally-Laden Prejudice”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 23, page 4:",
          "text": "The growing crisis of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, which demands intelligence and compassion, meets instead with ancient superstition.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To encounter; to experience."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "encounter",
          "encounter"
        ],
        [
          "experience",
          "experience"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They met the proposal with stiff opposition.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The proposal was met with stiff opposition.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The proposal met with stiff opposition. (ergative)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To answer (something) with; to respond to (something) with."
      ],
      "id": "en-meet_with-en-verb-GNl9IbPq",
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    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His face met with a punch harder than a punch should be.",
          "type": "example"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To strike (something)."
      ],
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    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The baseboard met with the chimney stones very crudely.",
          "type": "example"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To contact or touch (something)."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "contact",
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        [
          "touch",
          "touch"
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  "word": "meet with"
}

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    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"with\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meets with",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meeting with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "met with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "met with",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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        "American English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 239:",
          "text": "‘They want to meet with you at the Annexe as soon as possible. I'm to ring back by yesterday.’\n‘They want what?’\n‘To meet you. But they use the preposition.’\n‘Do they? Do they really? Good Lord. I suppose it's the German influence. Or is it old English? Meet with. Well I must say.’ And he lumbered off to the bathroom to shave.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have a meeting with (someone)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "meeting",
          "meeting"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US, Canada) To have a meeting with (someone)."
      ],
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        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The proposal met with stiff opposition.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1758 [1752], “LXXII. Concerning Snakes.”, in The Natural History of Iceland […] , London, translation of Tilforladelige efterretninger om Island by Niels Horrebow, page 91:",
          "text": "No ſnakes of any kind are to be met with throughout the whole iſland.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:",
          "text": "Dorothy told the Witch all her story: how the cyclone had brought her to the Land of Oz, how she had found her companions, and of the wonderful adventures they had met with.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986 December 21, F. Jay Deacon, “Emotionally-Laden Prejudice”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 23, page 4:",
          "text": "The growing crisis of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, which demands intelligence and compassion, meets instead with ancient superstition.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To encounter; to experience."
      ],
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        [
          "encounter",
          "encounter"
        ],
        [
          "experience",
          "experience"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They met the proposal with stiff opposition.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The proposal was met with stiff opposition.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The proposal met with stiff opposition. (ergative)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To answer (something) with; to respond to (something) with."
      ],
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          "answer",
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        ],
        [
          "respond",
          "respond"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His face met with a punch harder than a punch should be.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To strike (something)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
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          "strike"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The baseboard met with the chimney stones very crudely.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To contact or touch (something)."
      ],
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        [
          "contact",
          "contact"
        ],
        [
          "touch",
          "touch"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meet with"
}