high-tension meeting
- noun
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reunión de alta tensión
- Negotiations broke down during the high-tension meeting between the two rival companies.
Examples
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Even seasoned executives felt uncomfortable in the high-tension meeting that lasted several hours.
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The board called a high-tension meeting after the financial losses were announced.
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The team had a high-tension meeting yesterday.
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We are preparing for a high-tension meeting this afternoon.
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The board called a high-tension meeting to address the urgent issues affecting the company's future.
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During the high-tension meeting, employees voiced their frustrations over the recent changes in management.
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Even seasoned executives felt the pressure in the high-tension meeting where difficult decisions had to be made.
Antonyms
How Tense
Surface Forms
Morphology
high-tension + meeting
The phrase is fully compositional: 'high' intensifies 'tension' (pressure/stress), and attached to 'meeting' yields 'a meeting with intense stress or pressure.' This adjective+noun pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can derive the meaning.
Etymology
The term high-tension meeting comes from the image of a high-tension wire pulled very tight and ready to snap, so the meeting feels stretched and full of pressure. That's why it means 'a meeting with intense pressure or stress'.