parliamentary
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6.1
- adjective
- /ˌpɑːrlɪˈmɛntəri/
- Specialized
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parlamentario
- In a parliamentary democracy, the Prime Minister is chosen from the majority party in the legislature.
- parliamentary system
- parliamentary elections
- parliamentary government
I, I believe we need to restore proper sovereign parliamentary democracy in Britain.
- I, I believe we need to restore proper sovereign parliamentary democracy in Britain.
Examples
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In institutional terms, Czechoslovakia is as much a parliamentary system as Hungary and Germany.
Academic text (1991) -
We've helped them start a free press and institute a parliamentary government.
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Its aim was to achieve for women the same right to parliamentary vote as that enjoyed by men.
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And would it be a parliamentary system?
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Israel, on the other hand, is a parliamentary democracy with established civil liberties.
Academic text (2008) -
As former colonies of Great Britain, although India is now a republic, Canada and India are parliamentary democracies.
Academic text (2011) -
We are failing in our duty as in parliamentary positions when we're not ensuring that they're safe.
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And in it Locke sets out his theory of parliamentary supremacy, rule of law and constitutional government.
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The opposition parties boycotted the December 8, 1992 parliamentary elections, causing them to be postponed.
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The Irish Parliamentary Party, under its hugely popular leader John Redmond has been agitating in the British house of Parliament for a limited form of Irish self-governance, to be known as Home Rule.
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.2
A system where parliament chooses and controls the government
- Jargon
A person who represents businesses or organizations to Parliament about laws
- Specialized
Rules that tell people how to run meetings and make decisions in official groups
- Specialized
A system where a king or queen is head of state while elected representatives make the laws
- Specialized
A system where ministers together make government policy and guide laws in parliament
Surface Forms
Morphology
parliamentary = parliament (transparent) = parliament + ary
Formed by the noun 'parliament' plus the adjectival suffix '-ary', meaning 'relating to parliament', which is directly inferable.
Etymology
Parliamentary comes from parliament, which comes from the old French parler, meaning 'to speak' or 'talk'. A parliament was originally a 'meeting to talk' where leaders choose and support the government, so parliamentary systems are ones where the government depends on that speaking assembly.