hold a meeting

To hold a meeting is to gather people together on purpose to discuss something. A room booked, an agenda, chairs in a rough circle.

Hold is the verb English uses for staging an event — you hold an election, a party, a service, an inquiry — and it belongs to the organiser rather than the attender. It takes with and about. Have a meeting is the everyday swap and slightly smaller; call one is to summon it; and chair one is to run it once everybody is there.