reconvening

Gathering once more

Reconvening is the act of gathering again after a break or adjournment.

A court reconvenes after lunch, a committee reconvenes after recess, Congress reconvenes after summer break.

The word implies a formal or organized group resuming business: The panel will be reconvening at two o'clock.

meetings

resuming

Beginning again after pause

agenda · quorum · delegates · conference · committee · board · summit · forum · parliament · council

legal

court

Trial venue or sports surface

  • hearingPerceiving sound waves
  • tribunalJudicial decision-making body
  • trialJudicial examination of claims

judge · proceedings · recess · adjournment · testimony · deliberations · jury · chambers · session · case

scheduling

rescheduling

Setting a different time

calendar · coordination · availability · notice · announcement · reminder · planning · logistics · deferral · delay

Opposites
assembly action

reconveningadjourning

Suspending a meeting

disbanding · dispersing · dissolving · breaking up · ending

temporal sequence of gatherings

reconveningconvening

Formally gathering together

first meeting · opening · assembling · opening session

Family

convention, conventional, covenant, convene, convent, unconventional, convocation, reconvene, convening

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