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convenecon‧vene /kənˈviːn/ ●○○ AWL verb [intransitive, transitive]  conveneOrigin: 1400-1500 French convenir ‘to come together’, from Latin convenire; ➔ CONVENIENT VERB TABLEconvene |
Present | I, you, we, they | convene | | he, she, it | convenes | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | convened | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have convened | | he, she, it | has convened | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had convened | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will convene | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have convened |
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Present | I | am convening | | he, she, it | is convening | | you, we, they | are convening | Past | I, he, she, it | was convening | | you, we, they | were convening | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been convening | | he, she, it | has been convening | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been convening | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be convening | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been convening |
- A board was convened to judge the design competition.
- His plan to convene a summer political convention drawing together individuals and groups who organized the Million Man March.
- If the Bundestag is unable to convene, legislative power goes to a joint committee of the Bundestag and Bundesrat.
- It was announced on Oct. 25 that the National Assembly would convene on Nov. 4.
- There were only a few dozen synagogues and fewer rabbis, yet the synod took two decades to convene.
- When the Democrats convene in Chicago later this month, they will try to equal or surpass the Republican hyperbole.
- With no parliament, the board can not convene.
► convene a conference formal (=arrange one)· a national conference on school violence convened by the U. S. Department of Education NOUN► conference· It requested the Secretary-General to convene a UN-sponsored international conference on this issue. ► meeting· If he decides to call a meeting, then the proofs of debt must be sent with the notice convening the meeting.· He often acts as secretary of the local authority responsible for convening all the meetings of the local authority and its committees. nounconvenerverbconvene if a group of people convene, or someone convenes them, they come together, especially for a formal meeting: a report by experts convened by the National Institutes of Health |