The Collaborative International Dictionary
Joint \Joint\ (joint), a. [F., p. p. of joindre. See Join.]
Joined; united; combined; concerted; as, joint action.
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Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together.
I read this joint effusion twice over.
--T. Hook. United, joined, or sharing with another or with others; not solitary in interest or action; holding in common with an associate, or with associates; acting together; as, joint heir; joint creditor; a joint bank account; joint debtor, etc. ``Joint tenants of the world.''
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Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond.
A joint burden laid upon us all.
--Shak.Joint committee (Parliamentary Practice), a committee composed of members of the two houses of a legislative body, for the appointment of which concurrent resolutions of the two houses are necessary.
--Cushing.Joint meeting, or Joint session, the meeting or session of two distinct bodies as one; as, a joint meeting of committees representing different corporations; a joint session of both branches of a State legislature to chose a United States senator. ``Such joint meeting shall not be dissolved until the electoral votes are all counted and the result declared.''
--Joint Rules of Congress, U. S.Joint resolution (Parliamentary Practice), a resolution adopted concurrently by the two branches of a legislative body. ``By the constitution of the United States and the rules of the two houses, no absolute distinction is made between bills and joint resolutions.''
--Barclay (Digest).Joint rule (Parliamentary Practice), a rule of proceeding adopted by the concurrent action of both branches of a legislative assembly. ``Resolved, by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), that the sixteenth and seventeenth joint rules be suspended for the remainder of the session.''
--Journal H. of R., U. S.Joint and several (Law), a phrase signifying that the debt, credit, obligation, etc., to which it is applied is held in such a way that the parties in interest are engaged both together and individually thus a joint and several debt is one for which all the debtors may be sued together or either of them individually; used especially in the phrase joint and several liability.
Joint stock, stock held in company.
Joint-stock company (Law), a species of partnership, consisting generally of a large number of members, having a capital divided, or agreed to be divided, into shares, the shares owned by any member being usually transferable without the consent of the rest.
Joint tenancy (Law), a tenure by two or more persons of estate by unity of interest, title, time, and possession, under which the survivor takes the whole.
--Blackstone.Joint tenant (Law), one who holds an estate by joint tenancy. Contrassted with tenant in common.
Usage examples of "joint meeting".
As I said in the joint meeting, opinion as to potential benefits is vastly divided.
Its security aspects had been largely habit, given an enemy from whom nuclear warheads were more to be expected than espionage, but they'd made this particular conference room the natural site for Trevayne's first joint meeting with both his military staff and the leaders of the newly-inaugurated Rim Provisional Government.
At last we had a joint meeting of all three troops to install Scout Masters and dedicate the Court of Honor and such.
There is to be a joint meeting tomorrow between all the negotiators and leaders of the financial sector.
This new honor came to her after an exciting joint meeting of those societies which threatened to end in violence and the severance of lifelong ties of friendship.