general assembly
Noun
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The supreme deliberative assembly of the United Nations (synset 108312980)
is a type of: deliberative assembly - an assembly of people for the purpose of unhurried consideration and discussionbelongs to: un, united nations - an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
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Persons who make or amend or repeal laws (synset 108180172)
associated with:
- scrutin uninomial system, scrutin uninominal voting system, single-member system, uninominal system, uninominal voting system - based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district
- sergeant at arms, serjeant-at-arms - an officer (as of a legislature or court) who maintains order and executes commands
- appropriation - money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
- one-member, uninominal - based on the system of having only one member from each district (as of a legislature)
is a type of: assembly - a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purposesubtypes:- senate - assembly possessing high legislative powers
- congress, u.s. congress, united states congress, us congress - the legislature of the United States government
- house - an official assembly having legislative powers
- legislative council - a unicameral legislature
- congress - a national legislative assembly
- diet - a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)
- parliament - a legislative assembly in certain countries
- duma - a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics in the former USSR
belongs to: authorities, government, regime - the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
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