parliamentary

English

Alternative forms

• Parliamentary

Etymology

Etymology tree

English parliament

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusder.

Middle English -arie

English -ary

English parliamentary

From parliament + -ary.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑːləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑɹləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/

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• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌpɐːləˈment(ə)ɹi/
• Rhymes: -ɛntəɹi

Adjective

parliamentary (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.

   Parliamentary procedures are sometimes slow.

2. 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.

3. (UK, 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^[1]:

     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.

Antonyms

• non-parliamentary, nonparliamentary
• unparliamentary

Derived terms

• antiparliamentary
• extraparliamentary
• interparliamentary
• parliamentarily
• parliamentariness
• parliamentarism
• parliamentary agent
• parliamentary borough
• parliamentary burgh
• parliamentary heel
• parliamentary monarchy
• parliamentary procedure
• parliamentary republic
• parliamentary train
• preparliamentary
• semiparliamentary
• Westminster parliamentary system

Translations

of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament

• Albanian: kuvendor, parlamentar (sq)
• Arabic: بَرْلَمَانِيّ (barlamāniyy)
• Armenian: խորհրդարանական (hy) (xorhrdaranakan), պառլամենտական (hy) (paṙlamentakan)
• Asturian: parllamentariu
• Belarusian: парла́менцкі (parlámjencki), парля́мэнцкі (parljámencki)
• Bulgarian: парламента́рен (bg) (parlamentáren)
• Catalan: parlamentari (ca)
• Czech: parlamentní (cs)
• Dutch: parlementair (nl)
• Esperanto: parlamenta
• French: parlementaire (fr)
• Georgian: პარლამენტარული (ṗarlamenṭaruli), საპარლამენტო (saṗarlamenṭo)
• German: parlamentarisch (de)
• Greek: κοινοβουλευτικός (el) (koinovouleftikós)
• Hungarian: országgyűlési (hu), parlamenti (hu)
• Indonesian: parlementer (id)
• Italian: parlamentare (it)
• Macedonian: парламента́рен (parlamentáren)
• Malay: parlimen (ms) (English-influenced), parlementer (Dutch-influenced)
• Manx: ard-whaiylagh
• Marathi: संसदीय (sausdīy)
• Polish: parlamentarny (pl)
• Portuguese: parlamentar (pt)
• Romanian: parlamentar (ro)
• Romansh: parlamentari
• Russian: парла́ментский (ru) (parlámentskij)
• Slovak: parlamentný
• Slovene: parlamentaren
• Spanish: parlamentario (es)
• Swedish: parlamentarisk (sv)
• Tagalog: pambatasan
• Ukrainian: парла́ментський (parlámentsʹkyj)
• Urdu: پارْلِیمانِی f (pārlīmānī)
• Vietnamese: quốc hội (vi)
• Welsh: seneddol (cy)

having the supreme executive and legislative power

• Armenian: խորհրդարանական (hy) (xorhrdaranakan), պառլամենտական (hy) (paṙlamentakan)
• Czech: parlamentní (cs)
• Georgian: პარლამენტარული (ṗarlamenṭaruli)
• German: parlamentarisch (de)
• Hungarian: népképviseleti (hu), parlamentáris (hu)
• Manx: ard-whaiylagh
• Portuguese: parlamentar (pt)
• Russian: парла́ментский (ru) (parlámentskij)
• Tagalog: pambatasan
• Welsh: seneddol (cy)

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• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} skupštinski (sh)

Noun

parliamentary (plural parliamentaries)

1. (UK, historical) A parliamentary train.