(assemblies)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
An ~ is a large group of people who meet regularly to make decisions or laws for a particular region or country.
...the campaign for the first free election to the National Assembly.
...an ~ of party members from the Russian republic.
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2.
An ~ is a group of people gathered together for a particular purpose.
He waited until complete quiet settled on the ~.
= gathering
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3.
When you refer to rights of ~ or restrictions on ~, you are referring to the legal right that people have to gather together. (FORMAL)
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4.
In a school, ~ is a gathering of all the teachers and pupils at the beginning of every school day.
By 9, the juniors are in the hall for ~.
...a long room with a stage at one end for assemblies.
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5.
The ~ of a machine, device, or object is the process of fitting its different parts together.
For the rest of the day, he worked on the ~ of an explosive device.
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