If you meet with, you have a meeting with that person, like a talk or lecture. Meeting someone is when you come face to face with that person.
Apologies: someone who can't make the meeting and informs the host prior to the meeting. Absent: someone who doesn't attend the meeting and did not let the host know.
A public meeting has to do more with businesses, basically a regular meeting. Meeting in public is just meeting someone like a friend or family member in public, like meeting them at a bus stop or restaurant.
Symposium originally referred to a drinking party and a meeting is a place to met others
Board meetings are formal gatherings of a company's board of directors to discuss and make decisions on important matters related to the organization's governance and strategic direction. Sales staff meetings are meetings held by a company's sales team to review performance, set goals, provide training, and discuss strategies to improve sales. The main difference is that board meetings involve high-level decision-making by the board of directors, while sales staff meetings focus on sales-related activities and performance of the sales team.
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A public meeting is one that is open to any and all people who are interested. A private meeting is one that takes place behind "closed doors".
The difference is that "somebody" is informal or colloquial. Use "someone."
An element is a pure material substance, a convention is a meeting of people.
A briefing is a type of meeting. It is normally used to indicate a 'feed' where information on a topic or situation is fed to the attendees as opposed to a meeting where ideas are exchanged and decisions made.
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A formal meeting has an invitation, a particular purpose, and usually an agenda of points to cover. An informal meeting is more of a "gather around and let's talk about this", with no fixed agenda or invitation.
As far as I can tell with the description you've given, A general meeting can happen at anytime, and on any subject, where an annual meeting will happen once a year, and will more than likely have a preplanned agenda. Of course a general meeting will have an agenda too