Meaning of parliament in English

parliament

noun

/ˈpɑː.lɪ.mənt/ us

/ˈpɑːr.lə.mənt/

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in some countries, the group of (usually) elected politicians or other people who make the laws for their country:

On Tuesday the country's parliament voted to establish its own army.

She was elected to Parliament in 1997.

[ C ]

a particular period of time during which a parliament is operating, between either holidays or elections

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There are two chambers in the British parliament - the House of Commons is the lower chamber, and the House of Lords is the upper chamber.
If there were as many women as there are men in parliament, the situation would be very different.
The opposition leader led a very forceful attack on the government in parliament this morning.
When a bill is passed in parliament it becomes law.
After 30 years in the political arena, our local member of parliament is retiring next year.

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parliament

noun [ C/U ]

/ˈpɑr·lə·mənt/

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world history

the group of people who make the laws in some countries

world history

Parliament often refers to the legislature of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

parliamentary

adjective [ not gradable ] us

/ˌpɑr·ləˈmen·tər·i, -ˈmen·tri/

a parliamentary election

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parliament

noun [ C or U ]

GOVERNMENT, POLITICS

/ˈpɑːləmənt/ us

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in some countries, a group of politicians who have been elected to make laws for the country:

They are hoping to push a radical income tax reform through parliament.

Currently, women's issues are not being dealt with properly in parliament.

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Examples of parliament

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The attempt to convey the moral illegitimacy of the government's and parliament's continuation of apprenticeship was fierce.

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However, instinct should be subject to cultural restraint and social intelligence, in international affairs just as in the ordinary world of police courts and parliaments.

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Despite these criticisms, the schedule readily passed all colonial parliaments.

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A second section discusses the contribution of parliaments in fostering government accountability.

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One way of checking on this is to see whether left-right positions of governments line up with their parliaments.

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To check this we investigate how accurately parliaments and governments represent the left-right position of the median voter in each of twenty parliamentary democracies.

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We have seen from the above that export expansions are robustly associated with a rising hazard of early elections as parliaments mature.

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Obviously, parliaments were ripe occasions for viceroys with monarchical pretensions to play out their fantasies.

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To illustrate the extent of parliament's acquiescence, it is instructive to compare the failure rate of enclosure legislation with that of non-enclosure legislation.

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Large estates permanently confiscated from great delinquents and fractions of estates taken from lesser offenders could be bought by parliament's supporters.

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Although its inclusion improves the fit of models, the lagged change in the inflation variable appears to be an artefact of two extremely short parliaments.

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The current complexion of parliaments shows the continued growth of professional legislators.

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First, parliaments are central to traditional normative concerns about democratic legitimacy and representation.

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The first section of the article outlined the emergence of parliaments as bourgeois institutions.

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Table 6 gives the coefficients for the pairs of coalitions over the five parliaments.

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bicameral parliament

The national legislature is a bicameral parliament.

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democratic parliament

Should not they be given credit for the great steps that they have already taken in establishing a democratic parliament?

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dissolution of parliament

However, it is not difficult to think of other circumstances in which an early dissolution of parliament would be desirable, if not essential, for the good of the country.

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