Words / C1

SUM-it/ˈsʌmɪt/

A summit is a meeting of leaders, or the highest point: a climate summit, the summit of a career, a mountain summit. A meeting is everyday; a peak is the height twin; a photo call is not a summit. Do not skip the minute and keep the word.

Meaning

A meeting between leaders of governments or organisations; also the highest point.

Examples

• “A campus “summit” with no minute is a photo call, not diplomacy.”
• “Meeting is everyday. Conference is larger. Peak and top are height. Diplomacy produces a communiqué or a minute. A banner and a buffet are hospitality. If nothing is written, nothing was agreed.”

Good to know

A leaders’ meeting; also a peak. Everyday: meeting / peak. A photo call without a minute is not a summit.

Near in meaning

meeting

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