boardroom
council chamber | a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company) |
conference table
council table
council board | the table that conferees sit around as they hold a meeting |
outhouse
privy
earthloset
jakes | a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate |
toilet
lavatory
lav
can john
privy bathroom | a room or building equipped with one or more toilets |
Continuity Irish Republican Army
CIRA
Continuity Army Council | a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein |
Fatah Revolutionary Council
Fatah-RC
Abu Nidal Organization
ANO
Arab Revolutionary Brigades
Black September
Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims | a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in , has conducted terrorist attacks incountries, in the s the Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous and murderous Palestinian terror group |
| Council of Economic Advisors | an executive agency responsible for providing economic advice to the President |
National Security Council
NSC | a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security, supervises the Central Intelligence Agency |
| Council on Environmental Policy | the executive agency that advises the President on protecting the environment |
| legislative council | a unicameral legislature |
Security Council
SC | a permanent council of the United Nations, responsible for preserving world peace |
Trusteeship Council
TC | a permanent council of the United Nations that commissions a country (or countries) to undertake the administration of a territory |
Economic and Social Council
ECOSOC | a permanent council of the United Nations, responsible for economic and social conditions |
Economic and Social Council commission
ECOSOC commission | a commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations |
| council | a meeting of people for consultation, emergency council |
North Atlantic Council
NAC | a council consisting of permanent representatives of all the member countries of NATO, has political authority and powers of decision |
| council | a body serving in an administrative capacity, student council |
| city council | a municipal body that can pass ordinances and appropriate funds etc. |
| executive council | a council that shares the supreme executive power |
| privy council | an advisory council to a ruler (especially to the British Crown) |
| works council | (chiefly Brit) a council representing employer and employees of a plant or business to discuss working conditions etc, also: a committee representing the workers elected to negotiate with management about grievances and wages etc |
| council | (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine |
| ecumenical council | (early Christian church) one of seven gatherings of bishops from around the known world under the presidency of the Pope to regulate matters of faith and morals and discipline, the first seven councils through are considered to be ecumenical councils by both the Roman Catholic church and the Eastern Orthodox church but the next fourteen councils are considered ecumenical only by the Roman Catholic church |
Nicaea
First Council of Nicaea | the first ecumenical council in which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism |
Constantinople
First Council of Constantinople | the second ecumenical council in which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed |
Ephesus
Council of Ephesus | the third ecumenical council in which declared Mary as mother of God and condemned Pelagius |
Chalcedon
Council of Chalcedon | the fourth ecumenical council in which defined the two natures (human and divine) of Christ |
| Constantinople Second Council of Constantinople | the fifth ecumenical council in which held Origen's writings to be heretic |
| Constantinople Third Council of Constantinople | the sixth ecumenical council in - which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human |
| Nicaea Second Council of Nicaea | the seventh ecumenical council in which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images |
| Constantinople Fourth Council of Constantinople | the council in that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches |
| Lateran Council | any of five general councils of the Western Catholic Church that were held in the Lateran Palace |
| First Lateran Council | the first council of the Western Church held in the Lateran Palace in , focused on church discipline and made plans to recover the Holy Lands from the Muslim `infidels' |
| Second Lateran Council | the second council of the Western Church in which put an end to the dogmatic errors of Arnold of Brescia |
| Third Lateran Council | the Lateran Council in that condemned the heresies of the Albigenses and the Waldenses |
| Fourth Lateran Council | the Lateran Council in was the most important council of the Middle Ages, issued a creed against Albigensianism, published reformatory decrees, promulgated the doctrine of transubstantiation, and clarified church doctrine on the Trinity and Incarnation |
Lyons
First Council of Lyons | the council of the Western Church in that excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and planned a new crusade against the Holy Land |
| Lyons Second Council of Lyons | the council in that effected a temporary reunion of the Greek Orthodox with the Roman Catholic Church |
Vienne
Council of Vienne | the council in - that dealt with alleged crimes of the Knights Templar, planned a new crusade, and took on the reformation of the clergy |
Constance
Council of Constance | the council in - that succeeded in ending the Great Schism in the Roman Catholic Church |
| Council of Basel-Ferrara-Florence | the council in - that concentrated on the elimination of heresies and on reforms within the Roman Catholic Church |
| Fifth Lateran Council | the council in - that published disciplinary decrees and planned (but did not carry out) a crusade against Turkey |
| Council of Trent | a council of the Roman Catholic Church convened in Trento in three sessions between and to examine and condemn the teachings of Martin Luther and other Protestant reformers, redefined the Roman Catholic doctrine and abolished various ecclesiastical abuses and strengthened the papacy |
| Vatican Council | each of two councils of the Roman Catholic Church |
First Vatican Council
Vatican I | the Vatican Council in - that proclaimed the infallibility of the pope when speaking ex cathedra |
Second Vatican Council
Vatican II | the Vatican Council in - that abandoned the universal Latin liturgy and acknowledged ecumenism and made other reforms |
| world council | a council with representatives from different nations |
| county council | the elected governing body of a county |
| World Council of Churches | an ecumenical organization of Protestant and eastern churches, intended to promote unity and cooperation in religious and secular matters |
| Council Bluffs | a town in southwest Iowa on the Missouri River across from Omaha |