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GROUP DISCUSSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic
Synonyms:
conference; group discussion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("group discussion" is a kind of...):
discussion; give-and-take; word (an exchange of views on some topic)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "group discussion"):
bull session (an informal discussion (usually among men))
colloquy (a conversation especially a formal one)
consultation (a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question)
audience; consultation; interview (a conference (usually with someone important))
huddle; powwow ((informal) a quick private conference)
news conference; press conference (a conference at which press and tv reporters ask questions of a politician or other celebrity)
pretrial; pretrial conference ((law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases)
round-table conference; round table; roundtable (a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views)
session (a meeting for execution of a group's functions)
teach-in (an extended session (as on a college campus) for lectures and discussion on an important and usually controversial issue)
teleconference; teleconferencing (a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television)
