The phrase "arranging an encounter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the planning or scheduling of a meeting or meeting someone, often in a social or professional context.
Example: "After weeks of communication, we finally succeeded in arranging an encounter to discuss the project in detail."
Alternatives: "setting up a meeting" or "organizing a meeting".
It would involve arranging "a suitable encounter of the Earth every 6,000 years or so with a body of large asteroidal mass," perhaps objects in the Kuiper Belt.
September 24, 2013 Mark Knoller (@markknoller) Admin officials say Iranian officials found it "too complicated" to arrange an Obama/Rouhani encounter at the UN, even a handshake.
A 47-year-old Bronxville High School teacher was convicted yesterday of attempting to arrange a sexual encounter with a 15-year-old former student, said Jeanine F. Pirro, the Westchester County district attorney.
Van even manages to arrange a sexual encounter for a student from India (subtly named Taj Mahal Badalandabad and played in the Peter Sellers tradition by Kal Penn), something regarded as inconceivable in most college comedies.
Anahad O'Connor (NYT) Correction: November 30, 2005, Wednesday A report and headline in the Metro Briefing column on Nov. 22 about a man's conviction in Westchester County for trying to arrange a sexual encounter with a former student misstated his employment status.
In 2014, Franco also exchanged private messages on Instagram with a then 17-year-old girl in an attempt to arrange a hotel encounter.
A spokesman for the SLC says: "We apologise to Miss Rodrigues for any inconvenience she encountered in arranging a refund of her overpaid balance and for any incorrect information she was given regarding interest.
They said the governor was intercepted on a federal wiretap arranging payments and an encounter with a prostitute in a Washington hotel room last month.
As The Times's Mark Landler wrote, Clinton aides did everything they could to arrange a "coincidental" brief encounter — including asking that Clinton's speech be just before Khatami's and that Clinton be seated within chair-bumping range of Khatami at the secretary general's lunch.
