0 past simple and past participle of convene
1 to bring together a group of people for a meeting, or to meet for a meeting:
The planners convened a workshop ("workshop without walls") to address this issue.
Several committees were convened, with representation of experts from a variety of stakeholders.
They are usually headed and convened by a senior party member who often serves in the government, such as the head of the police.
When the chief then convened the assembly, the first and most prestigious speakers would be the same advisors.
Using a data base of 87 legislative elections convened in the 1990s, the paper identifies three trends.
During the discussions of this hastily convened group, the only course of action that was not advocated by anyone was a second fixed-rate devaluation.
For the second round, each group convened for a facilitated meeting, which followed a written protocol.
After completion of data acquisition, the research team convened to review all available information.
