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A member of the lower house of certain US state legislatures.
n
(idiomatic, US politics) A state of the United States that historically votes for the winning candidate in a given election.
n
The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.
adj
(by extension) Of or pertaining to a political assembly.
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(Canada, UK, dated) One or more election campaign offices.
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A tendency to make decisions and tackle problems by means of committees.
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(US) A two-year session of these bodies, commencing after a Federal election and ending before the next one.
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(US, informal) congressmen and congresswomen
adj
Of or pertaining to the United States Congress.
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A male member of congress.
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(US) A member of the House of Representatives
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(US) A female member of the House of Representatives
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A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
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(US) A councilman or councilwoman; member of a council.
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(UK politics, of a member of a parliament) To vote against one’s own political party in parliament.
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(US) A council that coordinates the domestic policy-making process in the White House and offers policy advice to the President
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(law) Abbreviation of federation. [Act of joining together into a single political entity.]
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(politics, US) A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own.
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A representative of the government.
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A representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a house of a parliament.
adj
(especially law) Serving as an instrument or means (i.e., procedural or ancillary, not substantive).
n
A lawgiver; a legislator.
adj
(historical) Of or relating to a parlement, a provincial appellate court in the Ancien Régime of France.
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A particular assembly of the members of such a legislature, as convened for a specific purpose or period of time (commonly designated with an ordinal number – for example, first parliament or 12th parliament – or a descriptive adjective – for example, Long Parliament, Short Parliament and Rump Parliament).
adj
(obsolete) parliamentary
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(Commonwealth) A member of a parliament, congress or an elected national legislative body of another name.
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The system of government in which the executive branch is legitimised by parliament.
adj
Having the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament.
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(US, politics) Specifically, a member of the United States House of Representatives.
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(politics) The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
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A politician who is a leader in national or international affairs.
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(politics) A political cabinet with special powers or abilities.
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(government) The practice of having three legislative or parliamentary chambers.
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(government) The principle and practice of having a legislative body consisting of a single chamber.
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