| merging meeting coming together | the act of joining together as one, the merging of the two groups occurred quickly, there was no meeting of minds |
prayer meeting
prayer service | a service at which people sing hymns and pray together |
meeting
coming together | the social act of assembling for some common purpose, his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day |
forum
assembly meeting place | a public facility to meet for open discussion |
meeting
encounter | a casual or unexpected convergence, he still remembers their meeting in Paris, there was a brief encounter in the hallway |
meet
sports meeting | a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held |
| race meeting | a regular occasion on which a number of horse races are held on the same track, the Epsom race meeting was an important social event |
meeting
group meeting | a formally arranged gathering, next year the meeting will be in Chicago, the meeting elected a chairperson |
board meeting
committee meeting | a meeting for administrative purposes |
| camp meeting | religious (usually evangelistic) meeting held in a large tent or outdoors and lasting several days |
| stockholders meeting | a meeting at which the management reports to the stockholders of a company |
| meeting get together | a small informal social gathering, there was an informal meeting in my living room |
| town meeting | government of a town by an assembly of the qualified voters |
summit
summit meeting | a meeting of heads of governments |
| town meeting | a meeting of the inhabitants of a town |
blue ribbon commission
blue ribbon committee | an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue |
committee
commission | a special group delegated to consider some matter, a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours - Milton Berle |
| committee citizens committee | a selfonstituted organization to promote something |
| select committee | a parliamentary committee appointed for some special purpose |
| vigilance committee | a volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist |
| welcoming committee | a committee to welcome new residents to a community |
| standing committee | a permanent committee |
| Ways and Means Committee | a permanent committee of the United States House of Representatives that makes recommendations to the US House on all bills that would raise revenue |
| steering committee | a committee to arrange the order of business for some larger (legislative) body |
ethics committee
ethics panel | a committee appointed to consider ethical issues |
| finance committee | a committee appointed to consider financial issues |
political action committee
PAC | committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates |
Security Intelligence Review Committee
SIRC | an agency of the Canadian government that oversees the activities of the Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada and has the power to intrude on the privacy of suspected terrorists or spies |
rally
mass meeting | a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm |
luncheon meeting
lunch meeting | a meeting for lunch, usually to conduct business while eating |
revival
revival meeting | an evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in religion |
Committee for State Security
KGB
Soviet KGB | formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia |
confluence
meeting | a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers), Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers |
| committee member | a member of a committee |
meeting house
honeysuckle Aquilegia canadensis | columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers |
concurrence
meeting of minds | a state of cooperation |
| sense of the meeting | general agreement reached by an assembled group, no vote was taken, but after each discussion the chair summed up the sense of the meeting |
go-to-meeting(a)
Sunday-go-to-meeting(a) | used of clothing, my good clothes, her Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes |