parliamentary

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament

   parliamentary government

2. 2
   adj

   in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly

   parliamentary law

3. 3
   adj

   relating to or having the nature of a parliament

   parliamentary reform

4. 4
   adj

   Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.

   Parliamentary procedures are sometimes slow.

5. 5
   adj

   Having 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.

6. 6
   adj

   Of 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.

7. 7
   noun

   A parliamentary train.

8. 8
   adj

   Alternative letter-case form of parliamentary, typically in reference to a specific parliament, usually that of England or the United Kingdom.

Etymology

From parliament + -ary.