parliamentary

Pluralparliamentaries

1. 1
   adjective

   Having to do with a parliament, or made into law by a parliament.

   She watched the parliamentary debate on TV last night.

   He hopes to win a parliamentary seat in the next election.

   Similarlegislative

2. 2
   adjective

   Describes a government run by a group of leaders who are chosen from the parliament and must answer to it.

   Our country became a parliamentary democracy after the old king gave up his power.

   Many countries in Europe have parliamentary governments.

   Oppositepresidential

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3. 3
   adjectivehistoricalBritish

   Describes an old British train that, by law, ran both ways on a line every day for a penny a mile.

   The parliamentary train stopped at every little station on the line.

   The train was moving less fast through the summer night. The swift express had changed into something almost a parliamentary, had stopped three times since Norwich, and now, at long last, was approaching Banton.

   1931, Francis Beeding, “1/1”Here, parliamentary means a slow, cheap train that by law stopped often each day.

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4. 4
   nounhistoricalUKcountable

   An old British train that, by law, ran both ways on a line every day for a penny a mile.

   We missed the express and had to take the slow parliamentary instead.

   The parliamentary crawled along, stopping at every village on the way.

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