special session
noun
1 British (chiefly in plural) a periodic meeting of justices of the peace, convened by statute to address a particular kind of business (now historical ); occasionally with singular concord.
2A session of a legislative or regulatory body, convened outside the regular schedule in order to address urgent business.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in William Lambarde (1536–1601), antiquary and lawyer.
- parish register
- parish rig
- parish rigged
- parish school
- parish schoolmaster
- parish work
- Parisian
- Parisian cloth
- Parisianisation
- Parisianised
- Parisianism
- Parisianization
- Parisianize
- Parisianized
- Parisianly
- Parisian massacre
- Parisian matins
- Parisian pattern
- Parisian stitch
- wire-cut brick
- wire cutter
- wire-cutting
- wired
- wire dancer
- wire-dancing