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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bicameral
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
legislature
▪ Under a constitutional monarchy, the Tsar was Grand Duke, with a bicameral legislature.
parliament
▪ Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament, the lower chamber of which is popularly elected for up to five years.
▪ Legislative power is vested in a bicameral parliament consisting of a popularly elected 49-member House of Assembly and an appointed 16-member Senate.
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▪ Legislative power is vested in a bicameral parliament consisting of a popularly elected 49-member House of Assembly and an appointed 16-member Senate.
▪ Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament, the lower chamber of which is popularly elected for up to five years.
▪ Legislative power is vested in the bicameral Legislative Assembly.
▪ Over time, some bicameral systems have evolved toward unicameral systems.
▪ The bicameral Congress was reduced overall in size.
▪ The United States provides a good example of a bicameral system in which the two chambers are more or less equal.
▪ Under a constitutional monarchy, the Tsar was Grand Duke, with a bicameral legislature.
▪ We see therefore that the Framers were acutely conscious that the bicameral requirement and the Presentment Clauses would serve essential constitutional functions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bicameral

Bicameral \Bi*cam"er*al\, a. [Pref. bi- + camera.] Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches.
--Bentham.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bicameral

"having two chambers," 1832, from bi- "two" (see bi-) + Late Latin camera "chamber" (see camera) + -al (1).

Wiktionary
bicameral

a. (context politics English) Having, or pertaining to, two separate legislative chambers or houses.

WordNet
bicameral
  1. adj. composed of two legislative bodies [ant: unicameral]

  2. consisting of two chambers; "the bicameral heart of a fish" [syn: two-chambered]

Usage examples of "bicameral".

Already they have drunk the blood of the bicameral lizards and slaughtered many hunting wilches.

The status quo in Bermuda was pleasant enough: overemployment, full integration, bicameral legislature, a vigorous tourist economy.

There must be three parts to government--executive, legislative, and judicial--and to achieve balance it was essential that it be a strong executive, a bicameral legislature, and an independent judiciary.

At home every state but Pennsylvania and Georgia had a bicameral legislature, and because of the obvious shortcomings of the one-house Congress under the Articles of Confederation, agreement on the need for a bicameral Congress was widespread.

Pennsylvania and Georgia had a bicameral legislature, and because of the obvious shortcomings of the one-house Congress under the Articles of Confederation, agreement on the need for a bicameral Congress was widespread.

Hmong about Christopher Columbus, Betsy Ross, and the advantages of the bicameral system in preparation for their naturalization examinations.

Already they have drunk the blood of the bicameral lizards and slaughtered many hunting wilches.

The status quo in Bermuda was pleasant enough: overemployment, full integration, bicameral legislature, a vigorous tourist economy.

There must be three parts to government--executive, legislative, and judicial--and to achieve balance it was essential that it be a strong executive, a bicameral legislature, and an independent judiciary.

At home every state but Pennsylvania and Georgia had a bicameral legislature, and because of the obvious shortcomings of the one-house Congress under the Articles of Confederation, agreement on the need for a bicameral Congress was widespread.

Pennsylvania and Georgia had a bicameral legislature, and because of the obvious shortcomings of the one-house Congress under the Articles of Confederation, agreement on the need for a bicameral Congress was widespread.

This so-called Great Compromise called for a bicameral legislature.

Within five years, General Douglas MacArthur had imposed a constitutional democracy on Japan with a bicameral legislature, a bill of rights, and an independent judiciary.

We were on another planet learning about the bicameral legislature and the electoral college.

It would be a brilliant forgery, done in a nonbiological medium, of a living creature, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Primates, viviparous, bipedal, and having a bicameral brain—.