# parliamentary

Pronunciation: US say "pahr-luh-MEN-tuh-ree" /ˌpɑɹləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/; say "pah-luh-MEN-tuh-ree" UK /ˌpɑːləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/, AUS /ˌpaːləˈment(ə)ɹi/

## Adjective

1. Belonging or relating to a parliament, or enacted by a parliament.
   - Simple: Having to do with a parliament, or made into law by a parliament.
   - _A parliamentary committee will question the minister about the missing funds._
   - _The new tax required parliamentary approval before it could take effect._
2. Having supreme executive and legislative power held by a cabinet of ministers who are drawn from a parliament and answerable to it.
   - Simple: Describes a government run by a group of leaders who are chosen from the parliament and must answer to it.
   - _Under a parliamentary system, a government that loses a vote of confidence can fall._
   - _After independence, the country adopted a parliamentary constitution rather than a presidential one._
3. Describing a class of train that, under an act of parliament, ran in both directions along a line at least once a day at a fare of one penny per mile. *(British)*
   - Simple: Describes an old British train that, by law, ran both ways on a line every day for a penny a mile.
   - _The company ran a single parliamentary train each way to satisfy the law, timed for dawn when few wanted it._
   - _Third-class passengers on the parliamentary service paid a penny a mile._

## Noun

4. 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. *(UK)*
   - Simple: An old British train that, by law, ran both ways on a line every day for a penny a mile.
   - _Passengers with little money waited for the morning parliamentary rather than pay the express fare._
   - _The timetable showed the parliamentaries calling at every halt on the branch line._

## Origin

Formed from parliament + the suffix -ary.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/parliamentary (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).