Meaning & use
sit down meeting
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Meaning
nouncountable
A formal meeting where people sit together to discuss something, often to resolve a problem.
Grammar: Countable: a sit-down meeting, two sit-down meetings. Often written with a hyphen: sit-down meeting.
Patterns
- have a sit-down meeting
- a sit-down meeting with someone
- call a sit-down meeting
The manager called a sit-down meeting to discuss the budget cuts.
We need a sit-down meeting with the client to clear up the misunderstanding.
After weeks of emails, they finally had a sit-down meeting.
Word forms
| plural | sit-down meetings |
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Common combinations
- call a sit-down meeting
- The director called a sit-down meeting to address the staff's concerns.
- have a sit-down meeting
- Let's have a sit-down meeting next week to finalize the plan.
- a sit-down meeting with someone
- She requested a sit-down meeting with her supervisor.
- a formal sit-down meeting
- The negotiations began with a formal sit-down meeting.
Synonyms and how they differ
- face-to-face meeting
- Emphasizes being physically present; 'sit-down meeting' emphasizes the formal seated discussion.
- conference
- A larger or more formal gathering; a sit-down meeting is usually smaller and more focused.
Commonly confused: sit down meeting or sit-down?
sit down meeting vs sit-down
As an adjective alone, 'sit-down' can describe a meal where people are served at a table, or a protest where people sit and refuse to move. 'Sit-down meeting' is a specific compound.
Practice
The two leaders agreed to hold a ______ to settle the dispute.
Choose one answer.
The standard form is 'sit-down meeting' with a hyphen. 'Sit down meeting' is missing the hyphen, 'sitting-down' is not used, and 'meting' is a misspelling.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “sit down meeting”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.