group meeting

Other forms: group meetings

Definitions of group meeting

1. noun

   a formally arranged gathering
   synonyms: meeting

   types:

   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

   caucus

   a closed political meeting

   conclave

   a confidential or secret meeting

   conference

   a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda)

   congress

   a meeting of elected or appointed representatives

   convention

   a large formal assembly

   council

   a meeting of people for consultation

   forum

   a public meeting or assembly for open discussion

   plenum

   a meeting of a legislative body at which all members are present

   psychotherapy group

   a meeting of people for psychotherapeutic purposes

   stockholders meeting

   a meeting at which the management reports to the stockholders of a company

   summit, summit meeting

   a meeting of heads of governments

   town meeting

   a meeting of the inhabitants of a town

   Constitutional Convention

   the convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787

   encounter group

   a meeting of people to develop mutual understanding by freely expressing emotions

   Continental Congress

   the legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution; they issued the Declaration of Independence and framed Articles of Confederation

   indaba

   a council at which indigenous peoples of southern Africa meet to discuss some important question

   Jirga

   a Pashto term for a decision making assembly of male elders

   powwow

   a council of or with Native Americans

   synod

   a council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business

   symposium

   a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations

   seminar

   any meeting for an exchange of ideas

   colloquium

   an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting

   type of:

   assemblage, gathering

   a group of persons together in one place