| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| Meet with is a Standard idiom (I hope to meet with them next week), meaning “to hold a meeting, an encounter,” as distinguished from I hope to meet them, which could also mean “to be introduced to them.” Meet up (I hope you and I meet up again some day) is Casual at best, possibly dialectal. Standard users would use only meet at higher levels. Meet up with, however, is at least Conversational, and at least one dictionary considers it Standard; it simply means “encounter,” as in I hope to meet up with her again some day. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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