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Entry Word:: congress
Function:: noun

Text: 1 the highest lawmaking body of a political unit<the national emergency required a special session of congress>SynonymsparliamentRelated Wordsassembly, chamber, council, diet, house, legislature 2 a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose<following World War I a great congress of world leaders took place in Paris to plan the postwar world>— see meeting 1 3 a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest<the Canada Trades and Labor Congress>— see association 2

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