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parliamentary

Word definitions for parliamentary in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a congressional/parliamentary election (= to elect people to a congress or parliament ) ▪ People voted overwhelmingly Republican in the last congressional elections. a parliamentary candidate ▪ O'Connor was the ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament 2 Having the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament. 3 (context British English) A class of train (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary%20train) ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parliamentary \Par`lia*men"ta*ry\, a. [Cf. F. parlementaire.] Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary authority. --Bacon. Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a parliamentary act. --Sir M. Hale. According to the rules and usages of Parliament or ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from parliament + -ary .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or having the nature of a parliament; "parliamentary reform"; "a parliamentary body" having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament; "parliamentary ...

Usage examples of parliamentary.

In order not to compromise the influence of his family in the arrondissement of Arcis, that old statesman would doubtless propose for candidate some young man who could be induced to accept an official function and then yield his place to Charles Keller,--a parliamentary arrangement which renders the elect of the people subject to re-election.

With one senator excluded from voting by parliamentary law and the other absent by reason of physical disability, Mr.

Roby the ministerialist, sitting at the end of the table between his sister-in-law and Mrs Happerton, was very confidential respecting the Government and parliamentary affairs in general.

The miscarriage off Toulon became the subject of a parliamentary inquiry in England.

Theo, have no doubt that after a few months as an unhappy guest of Lord Monkshood and his parliamentary constables I would wind up in a lime pit somewhere, or a furnace.

Henry Hunt and others, met in Spa-fields on the 10th of February, under the pretext of petitioning for parliamentary reform.

The protestors and the mounted grims seemed to have control of the field with all the parliamentary constables killed, lying wounded, or in retreat.

Henry was, no doubt, entirely bent on his destruction, when, on his failure by a parliamentary impeachment, he attacked him upon the statute of provisors, which afforded him so little just hold on that minister.

Mr Rattler and Mr Roby had throughout their long parliamentary lives belonged to opposite parties, and had been accustomed to regard each other with mutual jealousy and almost with mutual hatred.

Saudi regime has pursued very superficial political and economic reforms, the government in Tehran has removed many of the religious restrictions, especially those on women, and helped to reinvigorate a quite lively parliamentary and political debate, which culminated in the critical parliamentary election in April 1992.

The marshals of the Parliamentary Guard came to take me to Strawflower Square, which was almost deserted.

Beck of Kentucky, Randall and Woodward of Pennsylvania, Marshall of Illinois, Brooks, Wood, Potter, Slocum, and Cox, of New York, Kerr, Niblack, Voorhees, and Holman of Indiana, Eldridge of Wisconsin, Van Trump and Morgan of Ohio, unitedly presented a strong array of Parliamentary ability.

Thus, after he and Peel had declared Canning and his cabinet to be irreligious, revolutionary, and dangerous to the country, in all the cant phrases of the time, their very first act was to take possession, as it were, of the Canning cabinet itself, and next of the Canning policy, on account of which the illustrious dead had been solemnly denounced by the one, and vituperated, in a manner far exceeding parliamentary licence, by the other.

Isabelle described the latest session of the European parliamentary committee into adai rights.

Except for occasional spells of depression he remained confident that he would achieve his goal - not by force and scarcely by winning a parliamentary majority, but by the means which had carried Schleicher and Papen to the top: by backstairs intrigue, a game that two could play.