session

Definition

  • noun: a period of time that is used to do a particular activity
  • noun: a meeting or series of meetings of a body (as a court or legislature) for the transaction of business
  • synonyms: meeting, sitting, diet

Examples

  • After the speech there will be a 'question and answer session'. [=a period of time when people can have their questions answered]

  • School will be back 'in session' at the beginning of September. [=school will start again at the beginning of September]

  • The board met in 'closed session' [=with no one else present] for four hours to discuss the issue.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I told that story about how Charlie Parker became Charlie Parker -Jo Jones threw a cymbal at his head. -Exactly. Parker was a young kid. Pretty good on the sax. Gets up to play in the cutting session And he fucks it up. And Jones nearly decapitates him for it. and he's laughed off-stage (..)
    2014 Whiplash