parliamentary

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: par=lia=men=ta=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

parliamentary, a. [Cf. F. parlementaire.].

•  Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary authority.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
•  Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a parliamentary act.  Sir M. Hale.  [1913 Webster]
•  According to the rules and usages of Parliament or of deliberative bodies; as, a parliamentary motion; parliamentary order; parliamentary procedure.  [1913 Webster]

Parliamentary agent, a person, usually a solicitor, professionally employed by private parties to explain and recommend claims, bills, etc., under consideration of Parliament. [Eng.] -- Parliamentary train, one of the trains which, by act of Parliament, railway companies are required to run for the conveyance of third-class passengers at a reduced rate. [Eng.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

parliamentary, adj.
1 of or relating to a parliament.
2 enacted or established by a parliament.
3 (of language) admissible in a parliament; polite.

Idiom

Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration the official name of the ombudsman in the UK. parliamentary private secretary a member of parliament assisting a government minister.

THESAURUS

parliamentary

absolute, aristocratic, authoritarian, autocratic, autonomous, bicameral, bureaucratic, civic, civil, conforming, conformist, congressional, constitutional, deliberative, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, formal, governmental, gubernatorial, heteronomous, lawmaking, legislative, legislatorial, matriarchal, matriarchic, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, ordered, orderly, parliamentarian, patriarchal, patriarchic, pluralistic, political, procedural, republican, self-governing, senatorial, theocratic, totalitarian, unicameral

ROGET THESAURUS

parliamentary

Council

N council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff, senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim, classis, Amphictyonic council, duma, house of representatives, legislative assembly, legislative council, riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate, court of appeal, board of control, board of works, vestry, county council, local board, audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber, cabinet council, privy council, cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general, assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle, meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house, quorum, council fire, powwow, primary, meeting, assemblage, member, senator, member of parliament, M, P, councilor, representative of the people, assemblyman, congressman, councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder, senatorial, curule, congressional, parliamentary, legislative, law-making, regulatory, deliberative.