congress
IPA: kˈɑŋgrʌs
noun
- (archaic) A coming together of two or more people; a meeting.
- A formal gathering or assembly; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.
- (often capitalized) A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America.
- An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.
- (dated) Coitus; sexual intercourse.
- (countable, collective) A group of baboons; the collective noun for baboons.
- The two legislative bodies of the United States: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
- A village in Ohio.
- (US) A two-year session of the Congress, commencing after a Federal election and ending before the next one.
- (India) Clipping of Indian National Congress.
verb
- (intransitive) To assemble together.
- To meet in a congress.
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Examples of "congress" in Sentences
- So I think everyone in congress is responsible for this failure.
- The Soviet position followed the new position of the CPSU at its 20th Congress 1956 where Nikita Khruschev unveiled misdeeds of Stalin in his secret speech on the last day of the congress.
- I'm more worried about the tactics the majority in congress is using, such as telling the minority they must vote on this issue right away, even if they haven't had time enough to read the bill's contents, than
- President Buchanan will be sooner converted than Napoleon; although I do not know, how the Heavenly Congress see this matter, because I am not in their congress but only a medium of messengers sent from that congress.
- Congress: Keeping control of congress and getting to 60 in the Senate is likely to be the focus of a lot of bloggers in the next â “but with organizing, party building, and fundraising via the internet President Obama.
- I did not notice anyone reluctant to talk to him when I was in Havana in January (during the Cultural Congress), and it is significant that he was one of the few Cuban intellectuals who were official representatives to that congress.
- The bottom line is, this american election is going to be won on who is more cool headed and experienced and takes action and is partisan and wants to fix the “DO NOTHING CONGRESS” vs hot headed, inexperienced, do nothing and bi-partisan and dosnt want to fix congress.
- At the opening of the Thirty-Fourth Congress the anti-Nebraska men gradually united in supporting Banks for speaker, and after one of the bitterest and most protracted speakership contests in the history of congress, lasting from the 3rd of December 1855 to the 2nd of February 1856, he was chosen on the
- Here's how the dilemma is summarized in a remarkable "Open Letter To Congress" that was, by one "Numerian," who appears to speak from deep experience working in finance and with derivates and gives permission to anyone to republish it or send it to congress, a letter that has also been reproduced by Cernig at Newshoggers, and which I think should be published at every blog in the liberal blogisphere:
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