congress

US: /ˈkɑŋɡɹəs/


English - Vietnamese dictionary

congress /'kɔɳgres/
  • danh từ
    • sự nhóm hợp, sự hội họp
    • đại hội, hội nghị
      • peace congress: đại hội hoà bình
      • medical congress: hội nghị y tế
    • (Congress) quốc hội (gồm thượng nghị viện và hạ nghị viện) (Mỹ, Phi-líp-pin, Châu mỹ la-tinh trừ Cu-ba)
      • during Congress: trong khi quốc hội họp

Advanced English dictionary

[pl. v.]
1 a large formal meeting or series of meetings where representatives from different groups discuss ideas, make decisions, etc: an international congress of trades unions
2 (Congress) (in the US and some other countries) the name of the group of people who are elected to make laws, in the US consisting of the SENATE and the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: Congress will vote on the proposals tomorrow.
3 used in the names of political parties in some countries: the African National Congress

Collocation

1 large formal meeting/series of meetings

ADJ.

international, national, world | annual | party | all-party | founding, inaugural | emergency | extraordinary | full

VERB + CONGRESS

attend, go to
Three hundred delegates attended the Liberal party congress.
| address | convene, hold | organize, schedule | open
The general secretary opened the congress on global warming.
| close

CONGRESS + VERB

take place | agree to sth, approve sth, adopt sth
The congress agreed to the tax-cutting package.
| call for sth | elect sb | vote

CONGRESS + NOUN

delegate, leader | debate

PREP.

at a/the ~
We met again at the annual congress.
| in ~
It was a year before the association met again in congress.
| ~ on
a congress on language in education

2 Congress: group of people elected to make laws

CONGRESS + VERB

approve sth
Congress approved most of the new powers.
| pass sth
Congress passed a series of important measures.
| vote
Congress voted to delay a decision.

PREP.

in ~
The Liberals in Congress felt the reforms did not go far enough.

PHRASES

a member of Congress, a session of Congress
legislation for the next session of Congress


Concise dictionary

congresses'kɒŋgres
noun
+the legislature of the United States government
+a meeting of elected or appointed representatives
+a national legislative assembly
+the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur

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