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Fitting to get informed about encounter (4,2,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

meet up with

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'encounter' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'fitting to get informed' is the wordplay.
'fitting' becomes 'meet' (meet can mean appropriate or apt).
'to get' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'informed' becomes 'upwith' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'meet'+'upwith'='MEET UP WITH'

'about' acts as a link.

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