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closed session

n. a session (usually of a legislative body) that is closed to the public [syn: executive session]

Usage examples of "closed session".

But what had been ordered as a closed session of the Keys had become something else, and holo-vid cameras rimmed the Spectators' Gallery above them, waiting to carry whatever was to transpire here to every HD in the star system.

Colonel Moore looked him squarely in the eye, as he said, 'Lieutenant Benjamin Tyson, it is my duty as president of this court to inform you that the court, in closed session, in full and open discussion, and upon secret written ballot, all of the members concurring, sentence you to dismissal from the Army of the United States and to forfeit all pay and allowances that may be due you or have accrued as a result of your past and present service as a commissioned officer in the Army of the United States.

On Tuesday, 30 March 1909, a sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence met in a closed session in Whitehall.

Puissant Chairman, I must insist that the Committee go into closed session.

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS CATEGORICALLY DENIES THE CHARGES LEVELED AGAINST IT IN CLOSED SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL.

The following month, May, the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, of which McCormack was a member, called the seven astronauts before them in closed session.

He had already made a motion in closed session that could send Judge Farris to his death.

Browning was to be testifying alone to the committee, in closed session,”.

The cabinet met again in closed session, both ignoring and attending to the din outside their windows.