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councilsnounpl. of council a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purposea war council attended by the top commanders of each of the armed services assemblies, congresses, conventions, convocations, gatherings, get-togethers, huddles, meetings, powwows clinics, workshopscabinets, caucuses, conclaves, synodsdemonstrations, ralliesconfabs, conversations, dialogues(also dialogs), discourses, discussions, palavers, talksnegotiations, parleys, summitsconferences, forums(also fora), round-robins, roundtables(or less commonly round tables), seminars, symposia(or symposiums)audiences, interviews, sessions a group of persons formally joined together for some common interestthe neighborhood council decided to campaign for a new park associations, boards, brotherhoods, chambers, clubs, colleges, congresses, consortia(also consortiums), fellowships, fraternities, guilds(also gilds), institutes, institutions, leagues, orders, organizations, societies, sodalities collectives, communes, communities, cooperativesalliances, blocs, camps, coalitions, partnershipsbodies, cadres, groupscircles, clans, cliques, coteries, juntas, juntos, klatches(also klatsches), lots, setscrews, outfits, parties, squads, teamsbranches, chapters, localsfaithfuls, folds, membershipssisterhoods, sororitiescabals, camarillas, camorras, confederacies, conspiraciesbands, gangs, ringscartels, combines, syndicates a meeting featuring a group discussionsummoned to a council to discuss ways that the state could improve medical care for the elderly colloquies, conferences, forums(also fora), panel discussions, panels, parleys, powwows, round-robins, roundtables(or less commonly round tables), seminars, symposia(or symposiums) colloquiums(or colloquia)caucuses, town meetingsassemblies, conclaves, congregations, congresses, consistories, conventions, convocations, synodsdebates, deliberationsbrainstormingschat rooms, newsgroups a local unit of an organizationthe scout's own council chose to ignore the national organization's discriminatory policies an exchange of views for the purpose of exploring a subject or deciding an issuean unscheduled council in the judge's chambers argumentations, arguments, argy-bargies(chiefly British), back-and-forths, colloquies, confabs, confabulations, conferences, consultations, consults, counsel, debates, deliberations, dialogues(also dialogs), discussions, give-and-takes, palavers, parleys, talks bull sessions, chat rooms, forums(also fora), meetings, powwows, roundtables(or less commonly round tables), seminars, skull sessions(also skull practices), symposia(or symposiums), talkathonschats, conversations, raps, wordsdiscourses, disquisitionsconsultancies, negotiations, pourparlers |