Many people, at the word gathering, immediately associate with a large group of people who have a formidable appearance and are dressed appropriately, who are currently discussing issues that are in no way related to good and security. In fact, a gathering is a phenomenon that has the most distant relation to such meetings.
What is a gathering?
According to the Wikipedia electronic encyclopedia, a gathering is a gathering of a large number of individuals in a specific place to discuss issues that concern them. Under this concept fall as holidays, social events, and the whole organization, if a lot of people work in it.
On June 19, 2004 the federal law of the Russian Federation “On meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets” was adopted, once again confirming this definition. According to him, a meeting is the presence in one particular place of a large number of citizens for a joint discussion of particularly important issues.
Therefore, to draw parallels with the world of bandits under this name will not be the right decision. Yes, among them there is a thieves' gathering - this is a bunch of bandits, as is commonly believed among ordinary inhabitants. But this is completely wrong.
Thieves' gathering
The National Legal Encyclopedia explains that a thieves' gathering is power in the underworld. The gathering includes only criminal authorities who have earned respect and power in their midst. It can be both thieves in law and ordinary bandits with exclusive privileges in their hands. When they get together, they together solve especially important issues: the appropriation of the next thief in law title to a distinguished bandit, the distribution of cash flow, the punishment of perpetrators, and so on.
This happens under the guise of a completely innocent event: participants in a birthday, wedding or funeral; a hospital visit in the guise of patients and doctors; just a meeting in an uninhabited place on the territory of a warehouse, basement or ordinary separate room; in the territory of places of deprivation of liberty by prior arrangement and so on.
This information perfectly reveals why the usual gathering and thieves - these are two similar, but different in meaning concepts.
Synonyms of the word gathering
Synonyms are words close in meaning that can replace the main statement without losing the main essence. To synonyms that can replace the word gathering include: meeting, rally, meeting, demonstration, council, extras, festival, meeting, forum, meeting and so on.