summit meeting

noun

1. a meeting or conference of heads of state, especially to conduct diplomatic negotiations and ease international tensions.
2. any meeting or conference of top-level officials, executives, etc.

summit meeting

1. Direct personal negotiations between heads of governments, especially meetings that took place between the leaders of the United States and the former Soviet Union .

Word History and Origins

Origin of summit meeting¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

Young said he views this historic summit meeting in Washington as “the beginning of a new age of globalization.”

From The Daily Beast

Netanyahu, whose relationship with Obama has been fraught since their first summit meeting in 2009, denies having taken sides.

From The Daily Beast

It was a summit meeting such as he had never dreamed possible, a summit meeting without benefit of long foreign minister's debate.

From Project Gutenberg

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