a group of people who have come together for a particular purpose
congregation
Cases of word usage
1) (usually the House of Commons) the assembly of the British Parliament elected by the people (commons)
2) a member of a legislative assembly (legislator)
3) an assembly which makes laws, e.g. Parliament in GB (legislature)
4) a supreme law-making assembly (in GB the House of Commons and the House of Lords) (parliament)
5) the senior part (house) of a two part legislative assembly in some countries, e.g. France, US; the governing council of some universities (senate)
6) a constitutional right of a sovereign, president, legislative assembly or other body, or a member of the United Nations Security Council, to reject of forbid something; statement that rejects or prohibits something (veto)