N. council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff, senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim, classis, amphictyonic council, duma, house of representatives, legislative assembly, legislative council, riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate, court of appeal, board of control, board of works, vestry, county council, local board, audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber, cabinet council, privy council, cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general, assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle, meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house, quorum, council fire, powwow, primary, meeting, assemblage, member, senator, member of parliament, m, p, councilor, representative of the people, assemblyman, congressman, councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder

V. assemble, gather together, meet (assemblage) 72, confer, caucus, hold council, huddle

Adj. senatorial, curule, congressional, parliamentary, legislative, law-making, regulatory, deliberative

N. party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, &c. 166, team, tong, council, community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity, confraternity, familistere, familistery, brotherhood, sisterhood, knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd, coterie, club, casino|, machine, tammany, tammany hall, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, verein, bund, zollverein, combination, turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue|, freemasonry, party spirit, confederates, conservatives, democrats, federalists, federals, freemason, knight templar, kuklux, kuklux klan, kkk, liberals, luddites, republicans, socialists, tories, whigs &c. staff, dramatis personae

V. unite, join, club together, cement a party, form a party, associate, enleague, federalize, go cahoots

Adj. in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked - together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint

Adv. hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat