"I would characterize it as an exploratory meeting and nothing else."

I remember his determination at the first exploratory meeting in the upstairs room of a small pub off Victoria Street in London.

As an outcome of that meeting, home owners and managers were invited to attend an exploratory meeting at the local hospital.

An organizing committee will then conduct exploratory meetings, surveys, and cost and feasibility analyses, before every member agrees with the business plan.

I will telephone Aila Woudiver and arrange an exploratory meeting.

In a statement, the British Government said: "The two sides had a useful exploratory meeting.

The negotiations followed two exploratory meeting over a possible agreement.

This is just an informal, exploratory meeting to see how to proceed.

In 2008, the Coalition launched exploratory meetings into what would become the Rebuilding America initiative.

So an exploratory meeting was agreed.