congress : Idioms & Phrases

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american federation of labor and congress of industrial organizations

  • noun the largest federation of North American labor unions; formed in 1955
    AFL-CIO.
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congress boot

  • noun an ankle high shoe with elastic gussets in the sides
    congress boot; congress gaiter.
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Congress boot ∨ gaiter

  • a high shoe or half-boot, coming above the ankle, and having the sides made in part of some elastic material which stretches to allow the boot to be drawn on and off. U.S.
Webster 1913

congress gaiter

  • noun an ankle high shoe with elastic gussets in the sides
    congress boot; congress gaiter.
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congress of industrial organizations

  • noun a federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955
    CIO.
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congress of racial equality

  • noun an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
    CORE.
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congress shoe

  • noun an ankle high shoe with elastic gussets in the sides
    congress boot; congress gaiter.
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Congress water

  • a saline mineral water from the Congress spring at Saratoga, in the State of New York.
Webster 1913

contempt of congress

  • noun deliberate obstruction of the operation of the federal legislative branch
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continental congress

  • noun the legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution; they issued the Declaration of Independence and framed Articles of Confederation
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criminal congress

  • noun forbidden or tabu sexual intercourse between individuals
    unlawful carnal knowledge.
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iraqi national congress

  • noun a heterogeneous collection of groups united in their opposition to Saddam Hussein's government of Iraq; formed in 1992 it is comprised of Sunni and Shiite Arabs and Kurds who hope to build a new government
    INC.
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sexual congress

  • noun the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur
    congress; intercourse; sexual intercourse; sex act; sexual relation; carnal knowledge; relation; copulation; coitus; coition.
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The Continental Congress

  • an assembly of deputies from the thirteen British colonies in America, appointed to deliberate in respect to their common interests. They first met in 1774, and from time thereafter until near the close of the Revolution.
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The Federal Congress

  • the assembly of representatives of the original States of the American Union, who met under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 till 1789.
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u.s. congress

  • noun the legislature of the United States government
    United States Congress; Congress; U.S. Congress.
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united states congress

  • noun the legislature of the United States government
    United States Congress; Congress; U.S. Congress.
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us congress

  • noun the legislature of the United States government
    United States Congress; Congress; U.S. Congress.
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