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reconvening

reconvening is the present participle and gerund of reconvene.

Meaning of reconvene

Verb

reconvene (third-person singular simple present reconvenes, present participle reconvening, simple past and past participle reconvened)

  1. (transitive) To resume something that has been convened and then paused.
    • dividing into a finite number of parts and then reconvening them,2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 252b
  2. (intransitive) To come together again.
    • We will reconvene after lunch to discuss the outstanding points on the agenda.

Questions about reconvening

What is reconvening the present participle and gerund of?
Reconvening is the present participle and gerund of reconvene.

Words near reconvening in the dictionary

  1. reconvalesces
  2. reconvalescing
  3. reconvene
  4. reconvened
  5. reconvenes
  6. reconvening
  7. reconvention
  8. reconventions
  9. reconverge
  10. reconverged
  11. reconvergence

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reconvening (page history and authors); reconvene (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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