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In the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), a monthly meeting or area meeting is the basic governing body, a congregation which holds regular for Quakers in a given area. The monthly meeting is responsible for the administration of its congregants, including membership and marriages, and for the meeting's property. A monthly meeting can be a grouping of multiple smaller meetings, usually called , coming together for administrative purposes, while for others it is a single institution. In most countries, multiple monthly meetings form a , which in turn form yearly meetings. Programmed Quakers may refer to their congregation as a church.