Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who convenes or meets with others.
- noun One who convenes or calls a meeting; in Scotland, one appointed to call together an organized body, as a committee, of which he is generally chairman: as, the convener of the Home Mission Committee.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who convenes or meets with others.
- noun Scot. One who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
convenes or calls a meeting
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the member of a group whose duty it is to convene meetings
Etymologies
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Examples
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The title our convener, Jean-Paul Riquelme chose for this session says it all.
The Chicago Blog 2009
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The title our convener, Jean-Paul Riquelme chose for this session says it all.
The Chicago Blog 2009
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She is the unofficial "convener" of about 40 churchgoers who have agreed to staff the trailer as a day-laboring work center.
Proposal for day-laborer site brings a national debate to Centreville 2010
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She is the unofficial "convener" of about 40 churchgoers who have agreed to staff the trailer as a day-laboring work center.
Proposal for day-laborer site brings a national debate to Centreville 2010
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She is the unofficial "convener" of about 40 churchgoers who have agreed to staff the trailer as a day-laboring work center.
Proposal for day-laborer site brings a national debate to Centreville 2010
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She is the unofficial "convener" of about 40 churchgoers who have agreed to staff the trailer as a day-laboring work center.
Proposal for day-laborer site brings a national debate to Centreville 2010
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She is the unofficial "convener" of about 40 churchgoers who have agreed to staff the trailer as a day-laboring work center.
Proposal for day-laborer site brings a national debate to Centreville 2010
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"We have an unorganized day-laboring center right now, spread out over many different corners of Centreville," said Alice H. Foltz, the "convener" of the Centreville Immigration Forum.
Centreville town hall on day-labor work center gets ugly 2010
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"We have an unorganized day-laboring center right now, spread out over many different corners of Centreville," said Alice H. Foltz, the "convener" of the Centreville Immigration Forum.
Centreville town hall on day-labor work center gets ugly 2010
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The Global Campaign for Education was established in 1999 to meet the goal of every child getting an education and Mr Brown will act as a "convener" to its High Level Panel.
BBC News - Home 2010
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