Council
Coun´cil Pronunciation: koun´sĭl
COUNCIL, legislation. This word signifies an assembly.
2. It was used among the Romans to express the meeting of only a part
of the people, and that the most respectable, in opposition to the
assemblies of the whole people.
3. It is now usually applied to the legislative bodies of cities and
boroughs.
4. In some states, as in Massachusetts, a body of men called the
council, are elected, whose duties are to advise the governor in the
executive part of the government. Const. of Mass. part 2, c. 2, s. 3, art. 1
and 2. See 14 Mass. 470; 3 Pick. 517; 4 Pick. 25 19 John. R. 58. In England,
the king's council are the king's judges of his courts of justice. 3 Inst.
125; 1 Bl. Com. 229.
Areopagus,
Bund,
Rochdale cooperative,
advisory council,
alliance,
assemblage,
assemblee,
assembly,
assignation,
association,
at home,
audience,
axis,
ball,
band,
bargaining,
bargaining session,
bloc,
board of directors,
board of regents,
board of trustees,
body,
brawl,
cadre,
camarilla,
caucus,
coalition,
college,
colloquium,
combination,
combine,
commission,
common market,
conclave,
concourse,
confab,
confabulation,
confederacy,
confederation,
conference,
confrontation,
congregation,
congress,
consistory,
consultation,
consumer cooperative,
conventicle,
convention,
convocation,
cooperative,
cooperative society,
corps,
council fire,
council of state,
council of war,
credit union,
curia,
customs union,
dance,
date,
diet,
directorate,
directors,
directory,
discussion,
divan,
economic community,
eisteddfod,
exchange of views,
executive arm,
executive committee,
executive hierarchy,
eyeball-to-eyeball encounter,
federation,
festivity,
fete,
forgathering,
forum,
free trade area,
gang,
gathering,
get-together,
governing board,
governing body,
group,
grouping,
high-level talk,
housewarming,
huddle,
infrastructure,
inquisition,
interchange of views,
interlocking directorate,
interview,
judicatory,
judicature,
judiciary,
kitchen cabinet,
league,
levee,
machine,
management,
meet,
meeting,
ministry,
mob,
negotiations,
news conference,
palaver,
panel,
parley,
partnership,
party,
plenum,
political machine,
pourparler,
powwow,
press conference,
privy council,
prom,
quorum,
rally,
reception,
rendezvous,
ring,
seance,
session,
shadow cabinet,
shindig,
sit-in,
sitting,
society,
soiree,
steering committee,
summit,
summit conference,
summitry,
symposium,
synod,
the Inquisition,
the administration,
the brass,
the executive,
the people upstairs,
top brass,
tribunal,
turnout,
union