congress

Definition

  • noun: a formal meeting in which representatives or experts discuss important matters, make decisions, etc.
  • noun: the act or action of coming together and meeting
  • used in the names of some political parties
  • synonyms: parliament, diet, convocation

Examples

  • She was recently elected to the country's 'congress'.

  • The bill easily passed both houses of 'Congress'.

  • the 'congresses' of Mexico and Chile

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I'm planning to propose it to him in Brandenburg at the G Summit. We've invited Russia and China to attend, but we didn't wanna move forward until we had congressional approval. - Bob? - We should discuss privately. You're going to Brandenburg yourself? If his health continues to worsen... (..)
    2016 TvShow: House of Cards Title: Chapter 45 Season: 4 Episode 6
  • (..) What... how'd you know I was here? Peter Gregory is invested in a company that uses GPS in phones to track people. That's creepy. You don't know the half of it. And neither does congress. - Are you ok? - Look, I don't want to waste your time. I think I gotta take the money from Gavin Belson. (..)
    2014 TvShow: Silicon Valley Title: Minimum Viable Product Season: 1 Episode 1
  • (..) But Mark was wrong! In the years that followed, hundreds of bankers and rating-agency's executives went to jail. The SCC was completely overhauled and congress had no choice, but to break up the big banks and regulate the mortgage and derivative industries Just kidding! Banks took the money the American people gave them and used it to pay themselves huge bonuses and lobby the congress to kill big reform and then they blamed immigrants and poor people and this time even teachers! And when all was said and done, only one single banker went to jail This poor schmuck! (..)
    2015 The Big Short