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Nine urgent changes absorbing business meeting (12)

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I believe the answer is:

encountering

'meeting' is the definition.
('encounter' can be a synonym of 'meet')

'nine urgent changes absorbing business' is the wordplay.
'changes' indicates an anagram.
'absorbing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'business' becomes 'co' (short for company).
'nine'+'urgent'='nineurgent'
'nineurgent' anagrammed gives 'enuntering'.
'enuntering' enclosing 'co' is 'ENCOUNTERING'.

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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