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verb
noun
- a national legislative assembly
- a meeting of elected or appointed representatives
- An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.
- A formal gathering or assembly of persons; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.
- (countable, collective) A group of baboons; the collective noun for baboons.
- (often capitalized) A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America.
- the social act of assembling for some common purpose
noun
name
- (US) The United States Senate.
- (Philippines) The upper house of the Philippine Congress.
- (US) The upper legislative body of many of the states of the United States.
- (Canada) The Senate of Canada; the upper house of the Canadian parliament; "the Senate".
- Any of several legislative bodies. (In countries which have multiple legislative bodies, the Senate is often the more senior.)
- (historical) The council that governed the ancient Roman Republic.
noun
- Initialism of member of congress.
- Initialism of military cross.
- (textiles) Initialism of matching colour.
- Initialism of motorcycle club.
- Initialism of medical center.
- (knitting) Initialism of main colour.
- (postal) Initialism of mail code.
- Initialism of medical certificate.
- (astronomy) Initialism of Mars-crosser.
- (informal) Initialism of madarchod.
- Initialism of master of ceremonies.
- Initialism of main character.
- (medicine, pathology) Initialism of molluscum contagiosum.
- Initialism of methylene chloride (“dichloromethane”).
- (electronics, audio) Initialism of moving coil, a type of phono cartridge.
- Initialism of male circumcision.
- (astrology) Initialism of medium coeli, the midheaven or highest point in the sky. Contrasted to Imum Coeli.
- Initialism of medical college.
- (computing) Initialism of movie clip.
- (music) Initialism of music cassette.
- (music, slang) A rapper.
- a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)
name
phrase
verb
noun
- (politics) A legislative body.
- A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
- (computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.
- (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
- A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
- (computing, Microsoft .NET) A building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.
- The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
- the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
- a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit
- a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose
- the social act of assembling
- a public facility to meet for open discussion
- a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together
noun
- a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency
- a performance of a play
- the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent
- the act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf
- a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
- a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
- a factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract
- a statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting
- the right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body
- an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent
- A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
- A statement; a presentation of opinion or position, or an utterance made to influence the opinions or actions of others
- A theatrical performance.
- (law) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
- (politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
- (medicine) An act of representing, i.e. presenting again.
- (mathematics) An action of some algebraic structure (typically a group or algebra, particularly a Lie algebra) on a vector space, such that each element acts by a linear endomorphism.
- The act of representing.
- (by extension, uncountable) The appearance(s) of a particular demographic group in a piece of media, particularly in regards to how such appearances are treated.
- That which represents something else.
name
- (US politics) The two legislative bodies of the United States: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
- (more specifically) The House of Representatives of the Philippines.
- (Philippine politics) The legislature of the Philippines.
- A census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
- A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Stonehenge, No. 73, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- (India, Indian politics) Clipping of Indian National Congress
- A village in Wayne County, Ohio, United States.
noun
name
- (politics) Ellipsis of House of Parliament.
- (US politics, as "the House") Ellipsis of House of Representatives.
- (politics, Westminsterian parliamentary systems) Ellipsis of House of Commons.
- More generally, a shortened name for any chamber of a legislature that is named "House of...", especially where the other chamber(s) are not so named, or where there is no other chamber (unicameral).
- A topographic surname from Middle English for someone residing in a house (as opposed to a hut) or in a religious house.
- An unincorporated community in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States.
- A village in Quay County, New Mexico, United States.
name
- (US politics) An informal caucus of approximately 50 moderate Republican members of the House of Representatives in the 114th Congress (2015-2017).
- A group of foreign diplomats based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, representing the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, the European Union, and Japan.
noun
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
- meat from a domestic hog or pig
- (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
- (chess) A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.
- (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
- (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.
verb
noun
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
- (chiefly US) A ready supply of income; one's livelihood.
- (chiefly US politics, often attributively) State funds as assigned for local or regional expenditure; especially, central money used for regional projects which are eyecatching or designed to appeal to voters.
noun
- Initialism of [U.S.] House Resolution.
- (law, politics) Initialism of house resolution.
- (occupational health) Initialism of hazard ratio.
- The management and administration thereof; a department or function that performs those.
- The human capital of an organization.
- (baseball) Initialism of home runs (in statistics).
- Initialism of heart rate.
- (philately) Initialism of hinge remnant.
- (genetics) Initialism of homologous recombination.
name
name
- (US, politics) A solution to violations of a clause in the United States Constitution that prevents sitting members of Congress being appointed to jobs created for them or for which the salary was increased while they were in office.
- (US, politics) Specifically, a method for correcting violations of Article 1, Section 6, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution.
noun
- (US politics) A special parliamentary procedure of the United States Congress to expedite the passage of certain federal budget legislation in the Senate, overriding the Senate's filibuster rules.
- The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.
- (Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church.
- (Australia, Canada) The process of systemically atoning for the crimes and broken promises that a nation has historically committed against indigenous people.
- (Christianity) The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement.
- (accounting) The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc.
- (Christianity) The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site.
- (Roman Catholicism) Ellipsis of sacrament of reconciliation (“a sacrament (sacred ritual) also called confession, involving contrition by a person, confessing sins to a priest, penance performed by the person, and absolution granted by the priest”).
- the reestablishing of cordial relations
- getting two things to correspond
noun
- a member of the United States House of Representatives
- a person who represents others
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- an item of information that is typical of a class or group
- One who speaks for or acts on behalf of another in a particular (especially official) capacity.
- (mathematics) A consistent choice of element from an equivalence class, used to identify it.
- A substitute or analogue.
- Something representing or standing for another; a symbol, an embodiment.
- Someone who represents others as a member of a legislative or governing body.
- Something (especially a living organism) regarded as typical of its class; a type.
- (US, politics) Specifically, a member of the United States House of Representatives.
- (law) An heir.
- A company agent who visits potential purchasers; a salesman.
- A member of a particular class.
adj
noun
- the passing of a law by a legislative body
- acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
- a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
- (law) A piece of legislation that has been properly authorized by a legislative body.
- (law) The act of making (a bill) into law.
- The act of playing the part of.
noun
- the passing of a law by a legislative body
- a journey usually by ship
- a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
- a short section of a musical composition
- a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
- the motion of one object relative to another
- a way through or along which someone or something may pass
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- the act of passing something to another person
- (bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.
- (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.
- (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
- An incident or episode.
- A passageway or corridor.
- The act of passing; movement across or through.
- The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
- A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- The advance of time.
- (euphemistic) The vagina.
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
- Part of a path or journey.
- (dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
- The right to pass from one place to another.
adj
verb
noun
adj
noun
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- an official assembly having legislative powers
- Lotto; bingo.
- (American football, slang, with “the”) The end zone.
- (historical) A workhouse.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
- (music) House music.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- (sudoku) A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- A container; a thing which houses another.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
- a social unit living together
- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
- a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
- the members of a religious community living together
- the management of a gambling house or casino
- aristocratic family line
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema
- a building in which something is sheltered or located
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
verb
- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
- contain or cover
- provide someone with accommodation
noun
- (US politics) In each of the legislative chambers of the United States Congress—the United States Senate and the House of Representatives—the elected member selected by the members of the political party with the second-largest number of elected members, who serves as principal spokesperson for the members of that party in that chamber and who plays a leading role in creating policies and strategies governing his or her party's business in that chamber.
- leader of the minority party in a legislature
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noun
phrase
name
- (US, with "the") Capitol Hill; the US Congress
- A town in Price County, Wisconsin, United States.
- (Canada, with "the") Parliament Hill; the Parliament of Canada; the parliamentary precinct in Ottawa as opposed to parliamentary functions elsewhere in the country
- A former township in Halesowen, West Midlands, which later became Hill and Cakemore.
- A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived on or by a hill.
- A village in Saundersfoot community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN1206).
- A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.
- A small village and civil parish (without a council) in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6495).
- A suburb near Four Oaks, City of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1199).
- A hamlet in Leamington Hastings parish, Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4567).
noun
name
- (US) The United States Senate.
- (Philippines) The upper house of the Philippine Congress.
- (US) The upper legislative body of many of the states of the United States.
- (Canada) The Senate of Canada; the upper house of the Canadian parliament; "the Senate".
- Any of several legislative bodies. (In countries which have multiple legislative bodies, the Senate is often the more senior.)
- (historical) The council that governed the ancient Roman Republic.
noun
- Initialism of member of congress.
- Initialism of military cross.
- (textiles) Initialism of matching colour.
- Initialism of motorcycle club.
- Initialism of medical center.
- (knitting) Initialism of main colour.
- (postal) Initialism of mail code.
- Initialism of medical certificate.
- (astronomy) Initialism of Mars-crosser.
- (informal) Initialism of madarchod.
- Initialism of master of ceremonies.
- Initialism of main character.
- (medicine, pathology) Initialism of molluscum contagiosum.
- Initialism of methylene chloride (“dichloromethane”).
- (electronics, audio) Initialism of moving coil, a type of phono cartridge.
- Initialism of male circumcision.
- (astrology) Initialism of medium coeli, the midheaven or highest point in the sky. Contrasted to Imum Coeli.
- Initialism of medical college.
- (computing) Initialism of movie clip.
- (music) Initialism of music cassette.
- (music, slang) A rapper.
- a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)
name
phrase
verb
noun
- (politics) A legislative body.
- A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
- (computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.
- (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
- A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
- (computing, Microsoft .NET) A building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.
- The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
- the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
- a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit
- a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose
- the social act of assembling
- a public facility to meet for open discussion
- a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together
noun
- a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency
- a performance of a play
- the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent
- the act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf
- a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
- a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
- a factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract
- a statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting
- the right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body
- an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent
- A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
- A statement; a presentation of opinion or position, or an utterance made to influence the opinions or actions of others
- A theatrical performance.
- (law) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
- (politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
- (medicine) An act of representing, i.e. presenting again.
- (mathematics) An action of some algebraic structure (typically a group or algebra, particularly a Lie algebra) on a vector space, such that each element acts by a linear endomorphism.
- The act of representing.
- (by extension, uncountable) The appearance(s) of a particular demographic group in a piece of media, particularly in regards to how such appearances are treated.
- That which represents something else.
name
- (US politics) The two legislative bodies of the United States: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
- (more specifically) The House of Representatives of the Philippines.
- (Philippine politics) The legislature of the Philippines.
- A census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
- A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Stonehenge, No. 73, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- (India, Indian politics) Clipping of Indian National Congress
- A village in Wayne County, Ohio, United States.
noun
verb
noun
- a national legislative assembly
- a meeting of elected or appointed representatives
- An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.
- A formal gathering or assembly of persons; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.
- (countable, collective) A group of baboons; the collective noun for baboons.
- (often capitalized) A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America.
- the social act of assembling for some common purpose
noun
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
- meat from a domestic hog or pig
- (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
- (chess) A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.
- (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
- (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.
verb
noun
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
- (chiefly US) A ready supply of income; one's livelihood.
- (chiefly US politics, often attributively) State funds as assigned for local or regional expenditure; especially, central money used for regional projects which are eyecatching or designed to appeal to voters.
noun
- Initialism of [U.S.] House Resolution.
- (law, politics) Initialism of house resolution.
- (occupational health) Initialism of hazard ratio.
- The management and administration thereof; a department or function that performs those.
- The human capital of an organization.
- (baseball) Initialism of home runs (in statistics).
- Initialism of heart rate.
- (philately) Initialism of hinge remnant.
- (genetics) Initialism of homologous recombination.
name
noun
- (US politics) A special parliamentary procedure of the United States Congress to expedite the passage of certain federal budget legislation in the Senate, overriding the Senate's filibuster rules.
- The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.
- (Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) Admission of a person to membership of the church, or readmission after the person has previously left the church.
- (Australia, Canada) The process of systemically atoning for the crimes and broken promises that a nation has historically committed against indigenous people.
- (Christianity) The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement.
- (accounting) The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc.
- (Christianity) The reconsecration of a desecrated church or other holy site.
- (Roman Catholicism) Ellipsis of sacrament of reconciliation (“a sacrament (sacred ritual) also called confession, involving contrition by a person, confessing sins to a priest, penance performed by the person, and absolution granted by the priest”).
- the reestablishing of cordial relations
- getting two things to correspond
noun
- a member of the United States House of Representatives
- a person who represents others
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- an item of information that is typical of a class or group
- One who speaks for or acts on behalf of another in a particular (especially official) capacity.
- (mathematics) A consistent choice of element from an equivalence class, used to identify it.
- A substitute or analogue.
- Something representing or standing for another; a symbol, an embodiment.
- Someone who represents others as a member of a legislative or governing body.
- Something (especially a living organism) regarded as typical of its class; a type.
- (US, politics) Specifically, a member of the United States House of Representatives.
- (law) An heir.
- A company agent who visits potential purchasers; a salesman.
- A member of a particular class.
adj
noun
- the passing of a law by a legislative body
- acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
- a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
- (law) A piece of legislation that has been properly authorized by a legislative body.
- (law) The act of making (a bill) into law.
- The act of playing the part of.
noun
- the passing of a law by a legislative body
- a journey usually by ship
- a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
- a short section of a musical composition
- a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
- the motion of one object relative to another
- a way through or along which someone or something may pass
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- the act of passing something to another person
- (bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.
- (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.
- (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
- An incident or episode.
- A passageway or corridor.
- The act of passing; movement across or through.
- The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
- A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- The advance of time.
- (euphemistic) The vagina.
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
- Part of a path or journey.
- (dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
- The right to pass from one place to another.
adj
verb
noun
adj
noun
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- an official assembly having legislative powers
- Lotto; bingo.
- (American football, slang, with “the”) The end zone.
- (historical) A workhouse.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
- (music) House music.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- (sudoku) A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- A container; a thing which houses another.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
- a social unit living together
- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
- a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
- the members of a religious community living together
- the management of a gambling house or casino
- aristocratic family line
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema
- a building in which something is sheltered or located
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
verb
- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
- contain or cover
- provide someone with accommodation
noun
- (US politics) In each of the legislative chambers of the United States Congress—the United States Senate and the House of Representatives—the elected member selected by the members of the political party with the second-largest number of elected members, who serves as principal spokesperson for the members of that party in that chamber and who plays a leading role in creating policies and strategies governing his or her party's business in that chamber.
- leader of the minority party in a legislature
name
noun
phrase
verb
noun
- a national legislative assembly
- a meeting of elected or appointed representatives
- An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.
- A formal gathering or assembly of persons; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.
- (countable, collective) A group of baboons; the collective noun for baboons.
- (often capitalized) A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America.
- the social act of assembling for some common purpose