session
/ˈsɛʃ(ə)n
/- After voting, they returned to their plenary sessions to discuss party business.
- It was a small, intimate gathering and some delegates chose to skip the sessions to make business deals.
- Council passed a motion that further questions on the sessions not be discussed again at council meetings.
Synonyms
- This would clear the way for it to go to the Lords before the end of the parliamentary session in the autumn.
- Peers will be given two days to debate the measure, which has to be passed before the parliamentary session finishes next month.
- The announcement from Lord Goldsmith came in a written statement slipped to the House of Lords on the last day of the parliamentary session.
- You may need additional childcare as most preschools operate three-hour sessions, with normal school holidays of around 13 weeks a year.
- Thankfully, none of our senior house officers and registrars seemed to notice it during the teaching session that afternoon.
Synonyms
- I went along to a training session community activists had organised to help migrants who must live in the skyscrapers' shadows.
- All are welcome to attend either training session given by a fully qualified instructor.
- We've asked the gym if they will run more children's activity sessions.
Synonyms
- Some were just out-takes from studio sessions that I just thought were funny and/or apt.
- After three years and an excruciating studio session, Our Lady Peace are back.
- If I could have been at a recording session, it would have been with Miles Davis.
- Mr White believes this triggered a downward spiral fuelled by heavy drinking sessions.
- After a heavy drinking session, a man went to his girlfriend's house and found he had been locked out.
- To make matters worse we drifted into a heavy drinking session.
Synonyms
Phrases
in session
Derivatives
sessional
- Many of the workers will be part-time, sessional or on temporary contracts.
- The second aspect of their strategy was the contracting out of sessional work to private orthodontists on a fee per case basis.
- With the budget cuts, the department can no longer afford to hire sessional teachers and have decided to reduce the number of courses offered.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin sessio(n-), from sess- 'seated' (see sessile).
seat from Middle English:
An old Scandinavian word which goes back even further to the same source as Latin sedere ‘to sit’. The Latin word is also the origin of sedentary (late 16th century), sedative (Late Middle English), and sediment (mid 16th century), and from its past tense session (Late Middle English) literally an act of sitting, so settling down to deal with something. The sense ‘a place where a government is based’, as in seat of government or power, comes from the throne or ‘seat’ of a king or governor. American pilots in the 1940s were the first to use by the seat of the pants, meaning that they flew the plane using their instinct and experience rather than relying on the aircraft's instrument panel. An experienced pilot could tell by a change in the vibrations of the seat if, for example, the plane was about to stall, and so take early action to rescue the situation.