Usually means: Suspension of parliament by monarch.
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  3. prorogation: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. Prorogation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  10. prorogation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  13. prorogation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  15. prorogation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. prorogation: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. prorogation: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prorogation)

noun:  Causing something to last longer or remain in effect longer; prolongation, continuance.
noun:  (politics) The action of proroguing an assembly, especially a parliament; discontinuance of meetings for a given period of time, without dissolution.
noun:  (politics) The period of such a discontinuance between two sessions of a legislative body.
noun:  (now rare) Deferral to a later time; postponement.

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