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What's the difference between 打ち合わせ and 会議 and ミーティング?

To me it seems that 会議 may be more formal, but I'm not entirely sure.
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Difference between 打ち合わせ and 会議 and ミーティング
打合せ is more generic. When you go abroad to meet your boss, your colleagues or
customers, you'd say 打合せ.

I use ミーティング for when I need to discuss a point with someone. If you're a
student and discuss with you advisor once a week, that's it.

会議 is defined as "there's a boring speaker, and everyone around is sleeping"
:) That's in fact a conference (even a small one with a handful of people).
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From my experience:

  * We use 打ち合わせ about going to a client's place, when talking internally.

  * 会議 can be internal or external. 会議中 can be used internally or on the phone with clients.

  * We use ミーティング for regular weekly section meetings where everyone tells what s/he is doing and what problems there are.

It might be specific to my company.
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For a business meeting: 会議

It basically means: "To meet for deliberations"

It's equivalent to the gairaigo: ミーティング (which I don't like much because
there's a widely used Japanese term already)

[打ち合わせ](http://gogen-allguide.com/u/uchiawase.html) is used for meetings of
people ”with a common interest". Meeting of a club maybe? As the link
explains, it has it origins in Gagaku, where musical instruments need to "hit
(taiko) as a unit and fit with the music"
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