convene a meeting

Meaning

To officially call or bring people together for a formal discussion or assembly. While highly common in business, it is also used in relationship contexts to describe organizing formal family councils, community associations, or structured group discussions to resolve issues.

Examples

• The family council decided to convene a meeting to discuss how to manage their grandfather's estate.

  The family council decided to convene a meeting to discuss how to manage their grandfather's estate.

• We need to convene a meeting of all the neighborhood committee members to plan the annual block party.

  We need to convene a meeting of all the neighborhood committee members to plan the annual block party.

• After the misunderstanding, the club president decided to convene a meeting to clear the air.

  After the misunderstanding, the club president decided to convene a meeting to clear the air.

• They will convene a meeting tomorrow afternoon to address the concerns of the community members.

  They will convene a meeting tomorrow afternoon to address the concerns of the community members.

• It was difficult to convene a meeting because everyone in the family lived in different time zones.

  It was difficult to convene a meeting because everyone in the family lived in different time zones.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ We need to convene for a meeting tomorrow.

  ✓ We need to convene a meeting tomorrow.

  Convene acts as a transitive verb meaning 'to call' the meeting itself. Adding 'for' is redundant and grammatically incorrect when referring to the act of organizing the meeting.

• ✗ The president made a meeting convene.

  ✓ The president convened a meeting.

  You convene the meeting directly. Using 'made a meeting convene' is stilted and unnatural in English.

Related Expressions

Practice

• The board of the homeowner's association decided to ___ to address the parking issues.

  💡 officially call a formal discussion

  Show answer

  convene a meeting

• We should ___ of all family members to talk about the upcoming reunion.

  💡 officially bring people together for a formal talk

  Show answer

  convene a meeting