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Definition of General assembly
1. Noun. The supreme deliberative assembly of the United Nations.
2. Noun. Persons who make or amend or repeal laws.
Examples of category: Scrutin Uninomial System, Scrutin Uninominal Voting System, Single-member System, Uninominal System, Uninominal Voting System, Sergeant At Arms, Serjeant-at-arms, Appropriation, One-member, Uninominal
Group relationships: Authorities, Government, Regime
Specialized synonyms: Senate, Congress, U.s. Congress, United States Congress, Us Congress, House, Legislative Council, Congress, Diet, Parliament, Duma
Generic synonyms: Assembly
Derivative terms: Legislate
Lexicographical Neighbors of General Assembly
Literary usage of General assembly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Book Prices Current by Katherine Kyes Leab, Daniel J Leab (1907)
"State of Rhode Island in general assembly, July Session, State of Rhode Island
in general assembly, Aug., 1781. Act for incorporating and bringing into the ..."
2. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"No debt shall be hereafter contracted by the general assembly unless such debt
shall be authorized by a law providing for the collection of an annual tax or ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"It Is urged that, as the Governor suspended McLendon during a session of the
general assembly, this general assembly had no right of removal; ..."
4. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1899)
"91-95 pp. Tf". Anno Regni Georgii II. ... Sexto. At a general assembly ....
1763 Ata general assembly begun and holden.... Anno Regni Georgii III Quarto. ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"On the 1st of June, 1807, the Presbytery and Synod recognized by the appellants,
were declared by the general assembly to be "in no sense the true and ..."
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