brush, clash, encounter, skirmish (noun)

a minor short-term fight

meeting, encounter (noun)

a casual or unexpected convergence

"he still remembers their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the hallway"

encounter, coming upon (noun)

a casual meeting with a person or thing

confrontation, encounter, showdown, face-off (verb)

a hostile disagreement face-to-face

meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see (verb)

come together

"I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!"

find, happen, chance, bump, encounter (verb)

come upon, as if by accident; meet with

"We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"

run into, encounter (verb)

be beset by

"The project ran into numerous financial difficulties"

meet, encounter, receive (verb)

experience as a reaction

"My proposal met with much opposition"

meet, encounter, play, take on (verb)

contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle

"Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"

encounter (Noun)

An unplanned or unexpected meeting.

encounter (Noun)

A hostile meeting; a confrontation or skirmish.

encounter (Noun)

A sudden, often violent clash, as between combattants

encounter (Noun)

A match between two opposing sides

encounter (Verb)

To meet (someone) or find (something) unexpectedly.

encounter (Verb)

To confront (someone or something), notably face to face.

encounter (Verb)

To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.

Encounter

Encounter was a literary magazine, founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and early neoconservative author Irving Kristol. The magazine ceased publication in 1991. Published in the United Kingdom, it was a largely Anglo-American intellectual and cultural journal. The magazine received covert funding from the Central Intelligence Agency, after the CIA and MI6 discussed the founding of an "Anglo-American left-of-centre publication" intended to counter the idea of cold war neutralism. The magazine was rarely critical of American foreign policy, but beyond this editors had considerable publishing freedom. Spender served as literary editor until 1967, when he resigned due to the revelation that year of the covert Central Intelligence Agency funding of the magazine, of which he had heard rumors, but had not been able to confirm. Thomas W. Braden, who headed the CIA's International Organizations Division's operations between 1951 to 1954, said that the money for the magazine "came from CIA, and few outside the CIA knew about it. We had placed one agent in a Europe-based organization of intellectuals called the Congress for Cultural Freedom." Frank Kermode replaced him but he too resigned when it became clear the CIA were involved. Roy Jenkins noted that earlier contributors were aware of U.S. funding, but believed it came from philanthropists including a Cincinnati gin distiller.