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1
the highest lawmaking body of a political unit
- the national emergency required a special session of congress
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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
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a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest
- the Canada Trades and Labor Congress
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- association,
- board,
- brotherhood,
- chamber,
- club,
- college,
- consortium,
- council,
- fellowship,
- fraternity,
- guild
- (also gild),
- institute,
- institution,
- league,
- order,
- organization,
- society,
- sodality
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sexual union involving penetration of the vagina by the penis
- laws that once prohibited congress between people of different races
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The first known use of congress was in 1528
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