The act of persons or things that meet.
A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
The people at such a gathering.
A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
An encounter between people, even accidental.
A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.