The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word JUNCTION
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result JUNCTION
- Union Jack used by a religious rite
- Judge joining outside court as meeting place
- Meeting Judge – purpose is to dismiss fine
- Judge wanting harmony about court meeting
- Meeting place has unconvincing charm, meeting Jack
- Order to avoid popular meeting place
- Order not in place where roads cross
- Japanese ointment for joint
- Judge initially joining outside court’s meeting place
- Meeting judge: primarily, purpose is to dismiss fine
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The straight part
We know that "meeting place" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case meeting place = junction.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does JUNCTION mean?
JUNCTION noun- The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
- A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
- The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
- The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
- A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
- A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
- A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
- In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
- (of roads or tracks) To form a junction.