parliamentaries
- 1Plural of parliamentary.
Poorer passengers crowded into the parliamentaries, the only trains they could afford.
The company ran its parliamentaries once each way every day, as the law required.
Note
A piece of British railway history: the parliamentary train, shortened to a parliamentary, was the cheap service an act of parliament required, running both ways along a line at least once a day at a penny per mile. The noun grew out of the adjective, so its plural turns -y into -ies. Outside writing about those trains, a reader will meet only the adjective.
parliamentaries is a form of parliamentary
parliamentary, noun: A train of the class that an act of parliament required to run both ways along a line at least daily, at a fare of a penny a mile. Full entry
- Forms
- parliamentaryparliamentaries plural
- Spelling
- parliamentary → parliamentaries: change y to i, add -es
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