Congress National Year Package Legislation Noun Bre ˈkɒŋɡres

• an international congress of trades unions
• congress will vote on the proposals tomorrow.
• the african national congress
• congress adjourned for the year without approving an economic stimulus package.

congress

1. a large formal meeting or series of meetings where representatives from different groups discuss ideas, make decisions, etc.
• an international congress of trades unions
2. (in the US and some other countries) the name of the group of people who are elected to make laws, in the US consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives
• Congress will vote on the proposals tomorrow.
3. used in the names of political parties in some countries
• the African National Congress

Extra Examples

• Congress adjourned for the year without approving an economic stimulus package.
• Congress annually enacts legislation to fund NASA.
• Congress appropriated $75 million for the program.
• Congress approved most of the new powers.
• Congress authorized $18 billion to launch the program.
• Congress debated the issue at length.
• Congress is currently considering legislation that would authorize the US nuclear weapons laboratories to study new types of nuclear weapons.
• Congress passed a series of important measures.
• Congress voted to delay a decision.
• It was a year before the association met again in congress.
• Outraged, he took his case to Congress.
• President Fujimori suspended Congress and the judiciary.
• The Liberals in Congress felt the reforms did not go far enough.
• The Republican congress applauded this news enthusiastically.
• The committee will call a national congress of 1 000 delegates.
• The congress agreed to the tax-cutting package.
• The general secretary opened the congress on global warming.
• They will have to go to Congress to get the money.
• Three hundred delegates attended the Liberal party congress.
• We met again at the annual congress.
• We wanted to offer the congress participants a greater diversity of content.
• Within two years of coming to power, he dissolved Congress and the courts.
• a congress on language in education
• legislation for the next session of Congress

Word Origin

• late Middle English (denoting an encounter during battle): from Latin congressus, from congredi ‘meet’, from con- ‘together’ + gradi ‘walk’.