🏛️council

Meaning

an assembly of people chosen or elected to make decisions or advise on matters

Example Sentences

The city council voted to improve public transportation.

Example Expressions

council of war

Synonyms

committee, board, panel, assembly, group

Antonyms

individual, autocrat

Collocations

city council, council meeting, student council, council member

More Example Sentences

Has the city council taken any measure to decrease the bus fare?

Does everybody know of how many members the council of advisers of the caretaker government consists?

A woman organizes a neighborhood cleanup on a Saturday morning by posting flyers on every street corner and creating a group chat to coordinate volunteers who bring their own gloves and garbage bags and they pick up litter from the sidewalks and empty lots while children paint recycling signs for the community bins and a local bakery donates snacks for everyone making the event a great success that brings people together and inspires the city council to install more trash cans in the area.