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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
parliament
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hung parliament
Member of Parliament
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
federal
▪ The federal parliament also cocked a snook at the United Nations administration in Kosovo.
▪ On April 15 the federal parliament approved refinements to the presidential election process.
▪ Two of the small number of Liberals representing Quebec in the federal parliament resigned from the party in response to Chrétien's election.
▪ There is a third, federal parliament.
▪ A two-chamber federal parliament would confirm these appointments.
▪ She wants to get back into the federal parliament.
hung
▪ They also point to a hung parliament.
▪ If not, the hung parliament stays.
▪ Why is a hung parliament so-called?
▪ If there is a hung parliament and the Prime Minister resigns for whatever reason, what happens next?
▪ Whether he can match the Tories and Labour at political poker will only become apparent in a hung parliament.
▪ The polls came after another day dominated by the prospect of a hung parliament.
▪ He did so by rubbishing the only viable goal of any Liberal Democrat election campaign - a hung parliament.
▪ But if it is a hung parliament, this will be because we don't really want anyone to have any power.
low
▪ Elections to a lower house of parliament would be by proportional representation and an upper house would be appointed by provincial governments.
▪ He was first elected to the lower house of parliament in 1963, taking the seat of his late father.
▪ The Liberal Democrats lost 38 seats in the lower house of parliament in June elections.
▪ Earlier yesterday the government had defeated an opposition censure motion in the lower house of parliament.
▪ Referendums can not be used to make significant changes in the voting system for the lower house of parliament.
▪ A lower house of parliament would be elected by a system of proportional representation on the basis of universal non-racial adult franchise.
▪ Until the motion was tabled, the 480-seat lower house of parliament appeared to be split down the middle.
national
▪ First of all, the principle of the supremacy of national parliaments needs to be firmly established.
▪ Although Mrs Thatcher insists that accountability should exclusively be through national governments to national parliaments, this is not favoured by others.
▪ Not only would national parliaments not have any control over the decisions reached in the Council, no one else would either.
▪ After lengthy debates in each national parliament, ratification took a further year to complete.
new
▪ The new parliament convened for the first time on June 9.
▪ The new parliament will be empowered to levy a tax on its citizens to raise about $ 750 million a year.
▪ A similar item coming up is the attitude to Maastricht - the first major debate to be held by the new parliament.
▪ During 1661, a new parliament had been called, which was distinctly cavalier in character.
▪ On Oct. 27 Kuchma presented a new Cabinet to parliament.
▪ Reformers have accused the conservatives of carrying out the crackdown to invalidate the new parliament, due to convene on May 27.
▪ Consequently, on 22 June 1921, the King officially opened the new parliament and Northern Ireland was born.
▪ Elections would then be held under the new law; the new parliament would gather to adopt the rest of the constitution.
soviet
▪ But detailed claims were first made in public by a member of the former Soviet parliament, Andrei Zolotkov, in late 1991.
▪ In the end the plan was repudiated by Mr Gorbachev and rejected by the Soviet parliament.
upper
▪ Any proposal will be in trouble if it has to be approved by the upper house of parliament as well as the lower house.
▪ Yeltsin was seen meeting with the chairman of the upper house of parliament, Yegor Stroyev.
▪ Putin proposed stripping the regional leaders of their seats in the upper chamber of parliament.
■ NOUN
building
▪ This beautiful city of parks and flowers boasts one of the most impressive parliament buildings in the world.
▪ Carlson had been ordered to prevent the civil war exploding in the parliament building.
▪ The parliament building had burned, its roof had collapsed and a large heap of concrete lay around its doors.
▪ Pro-Mobutu troops surrounded the parliament building with tanks and armoured vehicles on Oct. 5 to protect this unauthorized session.
▪ The parliament building sits in a square like the keep of a castle.
▪ Later, around 3,000 people marched on the parliament building, where there were minor scuffles with police.
▪ It houses an elegant restaurant from which the views across the Danube to the parliament building and much of Pest are magnificent.
■ VERB
approve
▪ The budget was approved by parliament on Nov. 17 and Dec. 20, 1989.
▪ The changes were supported by all the major parties and were expected to be approved by parliament in due course.
▪ The proposals had still to be approved by the Crimean parliament itself.
▪ The measures were approved in parliament on Sept. 28 by a majority of one vote.
dissolve
▪ A referendum to dissolve parliament was held and was said to be accepted by 99.9 percent of the people.
▪ Kwasniewski has said he may dissolve parliament to put the issue to rest and call for new elections.
▪ Miss Bhutto gave Mr Ishaq an excuse to dissolve parliament by offering the resignation of her party's members of parliament.
▪ Opposition demands to dissolve the parliament for fresh elections were not accepted.
▪ Prime Minister Chand resigns and the King dissolves parliament.
▪ The following day he threatened to veto the law again and, if necessary, to dissolve parliament.
▪ The head of state would have no powers to dissolve parliament or to appoint state officials without parliamentary approval.
▪ President Venkataraman refused to dissolve parliament.
elect
▪ In 1972, at the age of 23, he was elected to parliament.
▪ He returned to politics in January 1995 when he and his wife were elected to parliament.
▪ Chaovalit would be the only member of the government not elected to parliament.
▪ They have developed a reasonably efficient administration, with an elected parliament and municipal councils.
▪ They are free only when they are electing members of parliament.
▪ This system ensured reasonably fair representation for each party, whilst preventing a large number of parties being elected to parliament.
▪ The opposition has asked the courts to disqualify two elected members of parliament.
pass
▪ The Pesticide Products Control Bill should pass through parliament this year.
▪ He anticipated that the government might table amendments to the Bill as it passes through parliament.
▪ The court has the power to strike down statutes passed by parliament and provincial legislatures, one it uses freely.
present
▪ The budget for 1992 was presented to parliament on Sept. 30.
▪ His ministry is preparing a telecommunications bill, which will be presented before parliament this spring.
▪ The so-called Massive Privatization Programme was expected to be presented to parliament for approval in the autumn.
▪ Numerous petitions concerning the forest were presented at the parliaments of this reign and the beginning of the next.
▪ The details have already been completed, but the proposed law has not yet been presented to parliament.
represent
▪ The axiom states that a population not represented in a parliament can not share a government which that parliament controls.
▪ In the district that Mr Baburin represents in parliament, 68% of those who voted pledged support for Mr Yeltsin.
▪ Henceforth, parties which fail to get 5% of the vote will not be represented in parliament.
tell
▪ He told parliament there had been a totally unacceptable series of events.
▪ Yeltsin told parliament leaders Tuesday at the Kremlin.
▪ He told parliament the government must work towards peace with the Arabs.
▪ Scalfaro met with Dini after the premier told parliament the mandate for his 11-month-old government had expired.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
vote sb into/out of power/office/parliament etc
▪ Four of the five who voted him out of office either refused to discuss the removal or did not return phone calls.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ During his 28 years in Parliament, the 59-year-old Chuan has been untainted by corruption.
▪ Elections for the European parliament are set for late next year.
▪ New budget measures were approved Tuesday by the Russian parliament.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ According to the new law local parliaments would be empowered to conduct inspection and auditing of local governments.
▪ But the upbeat, booster verve that had brought the parliament together would not be derailed.
▪ Despite gradual change, parliament continues to include non-white and working class members.
▪ His ministry is preparing a telecommunications bill, which will be presented before parliament this spring.
▪ In parliament there would be a carefully organized campaign of resistance that would at least slow the government down and raise Unionist morale.
▪ It turned violent when some protesters tried to tear down the gates of parliament.
▪ The idea also has support among the Communists in parliament, who chafe at their limited duties under the current constitution.
▪ Worcestershire was a staunchly Royalist county, and those who were suspected of siding with parliament were roughly dealt with.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parliament

Parliament \Par"lia*ment\, n. [OE. parlement, F. parlement, fr. parler to speak; cf. LL. parlamentum, parliamentum. See Parley.]

  1. A parleying; a discussion; a conference. [Obs.]

    But first they held their parliament.
    --Rom. of R.

  2. A formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws.

    They made request that it might be lawful for them to summon a parliament of Gauls.
    --Golding.

  3. The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws.

    Note: Thought the sovereign is a constituting branch of Parliament, the word is generally used to denote the three estates named above.

  4. In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts.

    Parliament heel, the inclination of a ship when made to careen by shifting her cargo or ballast.

    Parliament hinge (Arch.), a hinge with so great a projection from the wall or frame as to allow a door or shutter to swing back flat against the wall.

    Long Parliament, Rump Parliament. See under Long, and Rump.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
parliament

c.1300, "consultation; formal conference, assembly," from Old French parlement (11c.), originally "a speaking, talk," from parler "to speak" (see parley (n.)); spelling altered c.1400 to conform with Medieval Latin parliamentum.\n

\nAnglo-Latin parliamentum is attested from early 13c. Specific sense "representative assembly of England or Ireland" emerged by mid-14c. from general meaning "a conference of the secular and/or ecclesiastical aristocracy summoned by a monarch."

Wiktionary
parliament

n. 1 (context politics English) Meanings relating to a political body authorized to exercise governmental powers. 2 # An institution whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day and usually to exercise legislative powers and sometimes judicial powers. 3 # A group of representatives of the people elected or appointed to serve as a parliament ''(in sense 1 above)'' for a certain period of time. In this sense the word is commonly used with an ordinal number (for example, ''first parliament'' and ''12th parliament'') or a descriptive adjective (for example, ''(w: Long Parliament)'', ''(w: Short Parliament)'' and ''(w: Rump Parliament)''). 4 A collective noun for a flock of owls or rooks. 5 (context historical English) parliament cake; a type of gingerbread.

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WordNet
parliament

  1. n. a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Great Britain)

  2. a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as their sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards [syn: fantan, sevens]

Wikipedia
Parliament

In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative, elected body of government. Generally a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government (i.e., hearings, inquiries).

Although some restrict the use of the word parliament to parliamentary systems, it is also commonly used to describe the legislature in presidential systems (i.e. the French parliament), even where it is not in the official name.

Historically, parliaments included various kinds of deliberative, consultative, and judicial assemblies (i.e. the mediaeval parlements).

Parliament (band)

Parliament is a funk band most prominent during the 1970s. Both Parliament and its sister act, Funkadelic, are led by George Clinton.

Parliament (cigarette)

Parliament is a brand of cigarettes marketed by the company Philip Morris. The brand was introduced in 1931 and is distinctive for its recessed paper filters. It was originally used as an advertising gimmick when cigarettes did not have filters. The first commercial cigarette filters came into use in 1935. Cigarette filters became common in most cigarettes in the 1950s. In the 1940s and 1950s, the brand was marketed for its unique filters, with advertisements reading, "Only the flavor touches your lips", and "Tobacco tastes best when the filter's recessed". The brand also claimed that the recessed filter prevented tar from making contact with the smoker's mouth, unlike standard filters. The Parliament brand holds a strong market position in Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Argentina, Armenia, Israel, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Russia, Montenegro, Ukraine and United States.

Parliament (disambiguation)

Parliament is a title of certain legislatures.

Parliament may also refer to:

  • Parliament of the United Kingdom
  • Parliament railway station, Melbourne, Australia
  • Parliament (band), a funk music band
  • Parliament (cigarette), a brand of cigarettes
  • Parliament (card game), card game also known as Sevens
  • BBC Parliament, TV channel broadcasting footage from British parliaments
  • Parliament TV (New Zealand), New Zealand television station
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Usage examples of "parliament".

With reference to the lands attached to bishoprics the chancellor of the exchequer laid down this principle, namely, that if by the act of parliament to be introduced any new value was given to benefices, that new value not belonging properly to the church might be appropriated to the exigencies of the state.

Whoever will read his Basilicon Doron, particularly the two last books, the true law of free monarchies, his answer to Cardinal Perron, and almost all his speeches and messages to parliament, will confess him to have possessed no mean genius.

This plan being rejected, Lord John Russell proposed another, which would have extended the right of electing members to populous towns then unrepresented in parliament, and disfranchise every borough convicted hereafter of corruption.

Under the pretence of holding a Parliament, you can cite all the damned into the burning Evildom, and then bid the devils hurl them headlong to bottomless perdition, and lock them up in its vortex, to trouble you no more.

After the Reform Bill of 1832 Bowring was frequently a candidate for Parliament, and was finally elected for Bolton in 1841.

Halfway along Lower Parliament Street a corporation bus driver had ploughed into the back of a Burger King delivery truck and the consequent brouhaha had blocked the traffic both ways from the Theatre Royal to the Albert Hall and Institute.

Henry found that the parliament was no less submissive in deeds than complaisant in their expressions, and that they would go the same lengths as the former in gratifying even his most lawless passions.

After various debates on the iniquities practised by contractors, and the badness of the provisions which they supplied, Sir Philip Jennings Clarke introduced a bill for excluding contractors from parliament, unless their contracts were publicly obtained by competition.

This gave rise to much altercation and debate, especially among the lords, where the Earl of Chatham, Lord Camden, and others, who had long been the advocates of popular rights, vindicated the present exercise of royal prerogative, not on the plea of necessity but of right: arguing that a dispensing power was inherent in the crown, which might be exerted during the recess of parliament, but which expired whenever parliament reassembled.

All the steps towards the settlement of Episcopacy had indeed been taken with consent of parliament: the articles of Perth were confirmed in 1621: in 1633, the king had obtained a general ratification of every ecclesiastical establishment: but these laws had less authority with the nation, as they were known to have passed contrary to the sentiments even of those who voted for them, and were in reality extorted by the authority and importunity of the sovereign.

And though all these grievances had been already redressed, and even laws enacted for future security against their return, the praise of these advantages was ascribed, not to the king, but to the parliament, who had extorted his consent to such salutary statutes.

Should the king, they said, be able by force of arms to prevail over the parliament of England, and reestablish his authority in that powerful kingdom, he will undoubtedly retract all those concessions which, with so many circumstances of violence and indignity, the Scots have extorted from him.

Sir John Sharington, whose crimes and malversations had appeared so egregious at the condemnation of Lord Seymour, obtained from parliament a reversal of his attainder.

The end of it was that the king decided to form his own opinion about the matter and settle nothing beforehand, and continued this route, sending the ambassadors back to the pope, with the addition of the Marechal de Gie, the Seneschal de Beaucaire, and Jean de Gannay, first president of the Paris Parliament.

The King of England sent a message to Parliament, in which he spoke of armaments preparing in the ports of France, and of the necessity of adopting precautions against meditated aggressions.