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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reconvene
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After this first round of negotiations, there are no plans to reconvene the talks before the elections.
▪ For it is the president's job to reconvene parliament.
▪ It was agreed to reconvene the permanent commission to draw up a treaty between the two countries.
▪ Mr Major has ordered ministers to reconvene tomorrow.
▪ Suggest that perhaps the meeting reconvene in half an hour after studying the material.
▪ The Solid Waste Authority board will reconvene Dec. 19 to formally dissolve.
▪ The talks ended on May 18 with an agreement to reconvene in June.
▪ Tony offered to make breakfast, an event so rare that there was a chance parliament would reconvene at Þingvellir.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reconvene

Reconvene \Re`con*vene"\ (r?`k?n*v?n"), v. t. & i. To convene or assemble again; to call or come together again.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reconvene

1640s, from re- + convene and from Medieval Latin reconvenire. Related: Reconvened; reconvening; reconvention.

Wiktionary
reconvene

vb. 1 (cx transitive English) To resume something that has been convened and then paused. 2 (cx intransitive English) To come together again.

WordNet
reconvene

v. meet again; "The bill will be considered when the Legislature reconvenes next Fall"

Usage examples of "reconvene".

But with Congress not due to reconvene for another two months and the President still declining to say whether he would serve again, Adams saw no need for hurry and remained where he was.

By the time Judge Langley had returned to the bench and reconvened the court the room was more than three-quarters filled with spectators waiting breathlessly in an atmosphere charged with anticipation.

Regis must not have told his sister that he was reconvening the Comyn Council.

I heard Marino decock his pistol as we reconvened in deep shadows near the porch.

The next day twenty-eight of its members, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and Richard Henry Lee, reconvened as the “late representatives of the people” in the Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern, where they adopted a series of resolutions prepared by Washington in which, as a continuation of the policy of nonimportation, they pledged not to purchase any taxed merchandise except paper so long as the Townshend duties remained.

Does the Rhipidon Society reconvene in plenary session after all this time?

Report your progress to me within two hours, when it is my sincere hope we can reconvene this meeting under more civil conditions.

That hearing would have been reconvened and the confirmation withdrawn.

If that hearing was reconvened and Trevayne thrown out, he would have shot off his cannon.

Sulpicius reconvened the Plebeian Assembly and promulgated a third law.

The little groups reconvened themselves, and the idle chitchat of folks waiting against their wishes continued.

After a round of coffee and a phone call Teddy had to take-it was the Vice President-they reconvened their little conference and moved forward.

They slept little, and they were red-eyed and unshaved when they reconvened just after 6 a.

Twenty minutes later they reconvened in Argrow's suite, and they brought with them their collection of files wrapped neatly in a pillowcase.