parliamentary

English

Etymology

parliament +‎ -ary

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɑːləˈmentəɹi/
• IPA^(key): /ˌpɑːɹləˈmentəɹi/

• Audio (US):

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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.

   Britain is a parliamentary democracy.

3. (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^[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.

Derived terms

• parliamentary train

Translations

of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament

• Armenian: խորհրդարանական (hy) (xorhrdaranakan), պառլամենտական (hy) (paṙlamentakan)
• Asturian: parllamentariu
• Catalan: parlamentari (ca)
• Dutch: parlementair (nl)
• Esperanto: parlamenta
• French: parlementaire (fr)
• Georgian: პარლამენტარული (ṗarlamenṭaruli)
• German: parlamentarisch (de)
• Greek: κοινοβουλευτικός (el) (koinovouleftikós)
• Hungarian: parlamentáris (hu), országgyűlési (hu)
• Manx: ard-whaiylagh
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• Polish: parlamentarny (pl)
• Portuguese: parlamentar (pt)
• Romanian: parlamentar (ro) m or n
• Romansch: parlamentari
• Russian: парла́ментский (ru) (parlámentskij)
• Spanish: parlamentario
• Swedish: parlamentarisk (sv)
• Tagalog: pambatasan
• 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
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• 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)
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Noun

parliamentary (plural parliamentaries)

1. (UK, historical) A parliamentary train.