convene

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 0.68 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To come together; to meet; to unite.
2. verb To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
3. verb To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon.
4. verb To summon judicially to meet or appear.
5. verb To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.

   To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings.

Similar words

convoke gather summon assemble organized unite collect organization organising organize

Often followed by

a the in an at and both on to

Word family

convened convener conveners convenes convening convenor convenors convention conventional conventionally