Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A meeting for the purpose of horse-racing.

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Examples

  • "We'll show an event," meaning the race-meeting as a whole, "and the human-interest stories around it."

    3D show bidding to be sport's answer to Top Gear ready to exit stalls 2011

  • Publicity material describes celebrities being given a small amount of money and being challenged to get to that month's main international race-meeting by whatever means they can.

    3D show bidding to be sport's answer to Top Gear ready to exit stalls 2011

  • An uncle, George Pollexfen,17 afterwards astrologer and mystic, and my dear friend, came but seldom from Ballina, once to a race-meeting with two postilions dressed in green; and there was that younger uncle18 who had sent me for the rail-way-pass.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • An uncle, George Pollexfen,17 afterwards astrologer and mystic, and my dear friend, came but seldom from Ballina, once to a race-meeting with two postilions dressed in green; and there was that younger uncle18 who had sent me for the rail-way-pass.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • An uncle, George Pollexfen,17 afterwards astrologer and mystic, and my dear friend, came but seldom from Ballina, once to a race-meeting with two postilions dressed in green; and there was that younger uncle18 who had sent me for the rail-way-pass.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • An uncle, George Pollexfen,17 afterwards astrologer and mystic, and my dear friend, came but seldom from Ballina, once to a race-meeting with two postilions dressed in green; and there was that younger uncle18 who had sent me for the rail-way-pass.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • While the definition of a race-meeting is any gathering of persons attending an "animal" race, the section on race-meeting licences makes it clear the course must be suitable and comply with the requirements of the jockey club of southern Africa.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Impossible to follow up the history of a bank-note handed to an unknown bookie at a race-meeting.

    Unnatural Death Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 03 1988

  • Accordingly it had seemed good sense to arrive in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning and go to the only race-meeting in South Africa that day, at Newmarket.

    Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972

  • Accordingly it had seemed good sense to arrive in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning and go to the only race-meeting in South Africa that day, at Newmarket.

    Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972

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