WVSL - Meeting Planners

 A meeting is a assemblage of two or more citizenries that has been convoked for the purpose of achieving a common goal through verbal interaction, such as sharing data or reaching agreement. Meetings may come face to face or basically, as intermediated by communications technology, such as a telephone conference call, a skyped conference call or a videoconference. In a meeting, two or more people share data to talk about one or more subjects, often in a formal background.

Thus, a meeting may be told apart from other gatherings, such as a spin encounter (not convened), a sports game or a concert (verbal interaction is incidental), a party or the fellowship of friends (no common goal is to be achieved) and a presentation (whose common goal is reached mainly through the number of sales demonstrators present, not verbal interaction).
xBL.Com mercially, the term is used by meeting planners and other meeting professional persons to point to an event held at a hotel, convention center or any other venue devoted to in such assemblages.  In this signified, the word meeting continues a lecturing (one presentation), seminar (typically various presentations, small audience, one day), conference (mid-size, one or more days), congress (big, respective days), exhibition or trade show (with manned stands being visited by passers-by), workshop (minor, with dynamic players), training course, team-building seance and kick-off case.