parliamentary

alternative Parliamentary

1. not comparableOf, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.

   Parliamentary procedures are sometimes slow.

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   An IAF representative told an Indian parliamentary committee that due to the Ukraine war a “major delivery” from Moscow “is not going to take place.”

   2023 March 24, Rhea Mogul, “Russia can’t meet India arms deliveries due to Ukraine war, Indian Air Force says”, in CNN, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2024

2. not comparableHaving the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament.

   The UK is a parliamentary democracy.

3. UKhistoricalnot comparablerailwaysOf 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.

   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.

   1931, Francis Beeding, “1/1”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps

plural parliamentaries · alternative Parliamentary

1. UKabbreviationellipsisEllipsis of parliamentary train

1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of parliamentary, typically in reference to a specific parliament, usually that of England or the United Kingdom.