arrange a meeting

Meaning

To organize, plan, or schedule a time and place for people to gather and discuss something. It is widely used in both office environments and casual social planning.

Examples

• Could you please arrange a meeting with the marketing team?

  Could you please arrange a meeting with the marketing team?

• I need to arrange a meeting with my advisor to discuss my thesis.

  I need to arrange a meeting with my advisor to discuss my thesis.

• Let's arrange a meeting for next Tuesday at 10 AM.

  Let's arrange a meeting for next Tuesday at 10 AM.

• She managed to arrange a meeting despite everyone's busy schedules.

  She managed to arrange a meeting despite everyone's busy schedules.

• We should arrange a meeting to talk about the budget.

  We should arrange a meeting to talk about the budget.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ I want to make a meeting with you.

  ✓ I want to arrange a meeting with you.

  While 'make an appointment' is correct, 'arrange a meeting' or 'set up a meeting' is much more natural than 'make a meeting'.

• ✗ We arranged a meeting at next week.

  ✓ We arranged a meeting for next week.

  Use 'for' to specify the future target time or date of the scheduled meeting.

Related Expressions

Practice

• I will call the client to ___ for tomorrow.

  💡 Set up a time to talk

  Show answer

  arrange a meeting

• Can we ___ to discuss the new project details?

  💡 Organize a discussion

  Show answer

  arrange a meeting