convene
verb
[ kənˈviːn ]
• come or bring together for a meeting or activity; assemble.
• "he had convened a secret meeting of military personnel"
Similar:
summon,
call,
call together,
order,
hold,
convoke,
assemble,
gather,
meet,
get together,
come together,
congregate,
collect,
muster,
foregather,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin convenire ‘assemble, agree, fit’, from con- ‘together’ + venire ‘come’.