lunch meeting
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2.1
- noun
- /lʌnʧ ˈmiːtɪŋ/
:
reunión de trabajo
- I'd save 2 hours a week on my commute, have awesome office space, and enjoy some of Atlanta's best food at my lunch meetings.
- weekly lunch meeting
- several lunch meetings
Examples
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I have a lunch meeting at Hubert's in 20 minutes with Ronald Harrison.
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A potential client insisted on an urgent lunch meeting today.
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You have a very big lunch meeting.
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My lunch meeting ran a little long.
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I have a lunch meeting.
Fiction book (1995) -
So, lunch meeting at that Japanese restaurant at 1:30, okay?
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I've got lunch meetings all week.
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I schedule a mutually convenient lunch meeting with an individual classroom teacher.
Academic text (1992) -
You guys hold down the fort at Blump's Burgers because I have an important lunch meeting to go to at the police station.
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A potential client insisted on an urgent lunch meeting today.
Synonyms
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2.8
A meal, usually at a restaurant, where people discuss work matters
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3.4
A business meeting held during lunch to discuss work
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a meeting held over lunch' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'lunch' (a mid-day meal) with 'meeting' (a planned gathering). This is a straightforward compositional compound with no idiomatic shift, and the same logic exists in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Lunch meeting: The compound noun lunch meeting comes from the clear image of people having lunch and a meeting at the same time, sitting at a table and talking while they eat. Because the meeting happens during the meal, it means 'a meeting held over lunch'.