From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrendezvousren‧dez‧vous1 /ˈrɒndəvuː, -deɪ- $ ˈrɑːndeɪ-/ noun (plural rendezvous /-vuːz/) 1 [countable]MEET an arrangement to meet someone at a particular time and place, often secretlyrendezvous with He made a rendezvous with her in Times Square. plans for a secret rendezvous► see thesaurus at meeting2 [countable usually singular]MEET a place where two or more people have arranged to meet Boats picked us up at pre-arranged rendezvous.3 [countable]DL a bar, restaurant etc where people like to meet a popular rendezvous for media people
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rendezvous• I am opposed to air mattresses at a rendezvous, personally.• One quick telephone call had booked the aircraft, another fixed a rendezvous with a fellow salesman.• I had a rendezvous in the dark.• Dexter and she would deliver Urquhart there for his rendezvous at seven o'clock that morning.• Their plan for a Paris rendezvous had collapsed.• I asked if he was going down to the rendezvous.• Old Town Square is one of Prague's best known tourist rendezvous.rendezvous with• She flew to Paris for a secret rendezvous with Jean-Jacques.• The yacht was scheduled to rendezvous with a Coast Guard patrol on Monday.rendezvousrendezvous2 verb [intransitive] 1 MEETto meet someone at a time or place that was arranged earlier SYN meet uprendezvous with We’ll rendezvous with James in Nicosia.2 if two spacecraft, aircraft, or military vehicles rendezvous, they meet, for example to move supplies from one to the other→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
rendezvous• At seven p.m. she entered the wine bar where she had arranged to rendezvous.• The vehicle can then rendezvous and dock with the space station with little further expenditure of fuel.• The other participants in the meeting have to rendezvous at a similar studio, of which there are nine in Britain.• We rendezvous every morning near Blackfriars Bridge and get the first jobs over the radio.• But at weekends, they attempt to rendezvous over the Oxford marmalade, and on this occasion had succeeded.• You'd rendezvous with people at midnight at Covent Garden station.Origin rendezvous1 (1500-1600) French “present yourselves!” 