Convener definition

kənvēnər
conveners
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A person responsible for calling participants to a meeting, specif. a committee meeting.
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One who convenes or calls a meeting.
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Singular:
convener
Plural:
conveners

Origin of convener

  • From convene +‎ -er.

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Convener Sentence Examples

  • Isolated examples in the early middle ages of metropolitans dealing with their suffragan bishops by imprisonment in chains were extra-canonical abuses, connected with the perversion of Church law which treated the metropolitan (who originally was merely convener of the provincial synod and its representative during the intervals of sessions) as the feudal " lord " of his comprovincials.

  • The town council, which has its headquarters in the Municipal Buildings in the Royal Exchange, consists of fifty members, a lord provost, seven baffles, a dean of guild, a treasurer, a convener of trades, seven judges of police, and thirty-two councillors.

  • In 1864 Duff visited South Africa, and on his return became convener of the foreign missions committee of the Free Church.

  • Sanjay Pandey the convener of Bundelkhand Akikrit Party says that there is a single solution to develop bundelkhand region .

  • He also issued numerous appeals, with the result that in 1841, when he resigned his office as convener of the church extension committee, he was able to announce that in seven years upwards of f300,000 had been contributed, and 220 new churches had been built.

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