Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause to assemble in a meeting; convene. synonym: call.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To call together; summon to meet; assemble by summons.
- To call or draw in by claim or demand; appropriate as a right or power; claim as appertaining.
- = Syn. 1. Invite, Summon, etc. See
call .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
convene , tocause toassemble for ameeting . - verb To call together.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb call together
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The result is a rare demonstration of the theater's power to convoke and communicate; I left the play feeling that no amount of material encroachment could stifle humanity.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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The result is a rare demonstration of the theater's power to convoke and communicate; I left the play feeling that no amount of material encroachment could stifle humanity.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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BUENOS AIRES—Moves by Hugo Moyano, the powerful boss of the national truckers union, to convoke, and then suddenly cancel, a national transportation strike, represent an unmistakable warning to the government of President Cristina Kirchner, analysts said.
Argentina Unions Call Off Strike Matt Moffett 2011
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In his decision to convoke the Council, Pope John XXIII had wished the Church to be prepared for the new world that was emerging in the aftermath of the disastrous events of the Second World War.
Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy" 2009
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The result is a rare demonstration of the theater's power to convoke and communicate; I left the play feeling that no amount of material encroachment could stifle humanity.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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The result is a rare demonstration of the theater's power to convoke and communicate; I left the play feeling that no amount of material encroachment could stifle humanity.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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That would be a great selling-point to the state legislatures for a demand to convoke a constitutional convention.
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Second, there had never been a single leader, a paraibo, with the power to convoke the whole tribe.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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We call for the immediate return to democratic institutions, to convoke an extraordinary session of the General Assembly (GA), to defend institutions in Honduras.
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He went through the conflicts leading up to the coup, particularly the decision to consult the population on voting in November elections on whether to convoke a Constitutional Assembly and noted that his Law of Citizen Participation gave the people the power to be consulted on major decisions and was a critical step to "pass from a representative democracy to a participatory democracy."
Laura Carlsen: Zelaya Tells Mexicans Obama Can Turn Back Coup "In Five Minutes" 2009
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