https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_meeting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_hall_meeting
"A town meeting is a form of direct democracy in which most or all of the members of a community come together to legislate policy and budgets for local government. It is a town- or city-level meeting in which decisions are made, in contrast with town hall meetings held by state and national politicians to answer questions from their constituents, which have no decision-making power."
daijs: 政治家や閣僚などが一般市民に対して行う対話型の集会。
       [補説]本来は、米国の一部で採用されている地方自治制度の名称。有権者全員が集まり、行政や立法などに直接参加するもの。
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/タウンミーティング_(対話集会)
"タウンミーティングとは、主に地域住民の生活に関わる事項を話題とする集会。一般には行政当局または政治家が実施する対話型集会を指す。英語圏では同名の地方自治制度（→タウンミーティング）との混同を避けるためにタウンホールミーティング(英:town hall meeting)と呼ぶのが一般的である。"

"town meeting" and "town hall meeting" are not synonyms. Looks like タウンミーティング is only used with the "town hall meeting". Koj has a second sense but describes it as American.
I wasn't familiar with either of these terms. They're not used in the UK.

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-<gloss>townhall meeting</gloss>
+<gloss>town hall meeting (event at which a politician or public official answers questions from members of the public)</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
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+<gloss>town meeting (in the US)</gloss>

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+<gloss>townhall meeting</gloss>

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+<reb>タウン・ミーティング</reb>

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