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English
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Etymology
parliament + -ary
Pronunciation
Adjective
parliamentary (not comparable)
- Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.
Parliamentary procedures are sometimes slow.
- Having the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament.
The UK is a parliamentary democracy.
- (British, historical, railways) Of a class of train which, by an act of parliament, ran both ways along a line, at least once each day, at the rate of one penny per mile.
1931, Francis Beeding, “1/1”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps: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.
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Translations
of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament
having the supreme executive and legislative power
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Noun
parliamentary (plural parliamentaries)
- (UK, historical) A parliamentary train.