meet with

Verb

meet with (third-person singular simple present meets with, present participle meeting with, simple past and past participle met with)

1. (Canada, US, transitive) To have a meeting with (someone).
   • ‘They want to meet with you at the Annexe as soon as possible. I'm to ring back by yesterday.’
     ‘They want what?’
     ‘To meet you. But they use the preposition.’
     ‘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...1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 239
2. (transitive) To encounter; to experience.
   • The proposal met with stiff opposition.
   • I will follow your La’ſhip through the World; but your La’ſhip had almoſt as good be alone; for I ſhall not be able to defend you, if any Robbers, or other Villains, ſhould meet with you.1749, Henry Fielding, “A Strange Resolution of Sophia, and a More Strange Stratagem of Mrs. Honour”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book...
3. (transitive) To answer (something) with; to respond to (something) with.
   • They met the proposal with stiff opposition.
   • The proposal was met with stiff opposition.

   Synonyms:

   greet

4. (transitive) To strike (something).
   • His face met with a punch harder than a punch should be.
5. (transitive) To contact or touch (something).
   • The baseboard met with the chimney stones very crudely.