GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does General Assembly mean? 

• GENERAL ASSEMBLY (noun)
  The noun GENERAL ASSEMBLY has 2 senses:

1. the supreme deliberative assembly of the United Nations

2. persons who make or amend or repeal laws

  Familiarity information: GENERAL ASSEMBLY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENERAL ASSEMBLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The supreme deliberative assembly of the United Nations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("General Assembly" is a kind of...):

deliberative assembly (an assembly of people for the purpose of unhurried consideration and discussion)

Holonyms ("General Assembly" is a member of...):

UN; United Nations (an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Persons who make or amend or repeal laws

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

general assembly; law-makers; legislative assembly; legislative body; legislature

Hypernyms ("general assembly" is a kind of...):

assembly (a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose)

Domain member category:

scrutin uninomial system; scrutin uninominal voting system; single-member system; uninominal system; uninominal voting system (based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district)

sergeant at arms; serjeant-at-arms (an officer (as of a legislature or court) who maintains order and executes commands)

appropriation (money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose)

one-member; uninominal (based on the system of having only one member from each district (as of a legislature))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "general assembly"):

senate (assembly possessing high legislative powers)

Congress; U.S. Congress; United States Congress; US Congress (the legislature of the United States government)

house (an official assembly having legislative powers)

legislative council (a unicameral legislature)

congress (a national legislative assembly)

diet (a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan))

parliament (a legislative assembly in certain countries)

Duma (a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics in the former USSR)

Holonyms ("general assembly" is a member of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

 Context examples 

In September 2016, the UN General Assembly highlighted the urgency of limiting antibiotic use in animal farms which is the leading cause of drug resistance.

(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)

After a short silence, he told me, he did not know how I would take what he was going to say: that in the last general assembly, when the affair of the Yahoos was entered upon, the representatives had taken offence at his keeping a Yahoo (meaning myself) in his family, more like a Houyhnhnm than a brute animal; that he was known frequently to converse with me, as if he could receive some advantage or pleasure in my company; that such a practice was not agreeable to reason or nature, or a thing ever heard of before among them; the assembly did therefore exhort him either to employ me like the rest of my species, or command me to swim back to the place whence I came: that the first of these expedients was utterly rejected by all the Houyhnhnms who had ever seen me at his house or their own; for they alleged, that because I had some rudiments of reason, added to the natural pravity of those animals, it was to be feared I might be able to seduce them into the woody and mountainous parts of the country, and bring them in troops by night to destroy the Houyhnhnms’ cattle, as being naturally of the ravenous kind, and averse from labour.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I should here observe to the reader, that a decree of the general assembly in this country is expressed by the word hnhloayn, which signifies an exhortation, as near as I can render it; for they have no conception how a rational creature can be compelled, but only advised, or exhorted; because no person can disobey reason, without giving up his claim to be a rational creature.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)