encounter

encounter
[[t]ɪnka͟ʊntə(r)[/t]]
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encounters, encountering, encountered
1) VERB If you encounter problems or difficulties, you experience them.

[V n] Every day of our lives we encounter major and minor stresses of one kind or another...

[V n] Environmental problems they found in Poland were among the worst they encountered.

2) VERB If you encounter someone, you meet them, usually unexpectedly. [FORMAL]

[V n] Did you encounter anyone in the building?...

[V n] Renata wrote him that she had encountered her long-estranged father.

Syn:
3) N-COUNT: usu with supp An encounter with someone is a meeting with them, particularly one that is unexpected or significant.

The author tells of a remarkable encounter with a group of South Vietnamese soldiers.

4) N-COUNT: usu with supp An encounter is a particular type of experience.

...a sexual encounter.

...his first serious encounter with alcohol.


English dictionary. 2008.

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