parliamentary

• Parliamentary

From parliament +‎ -ary.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑːləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑɹləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌpaːləˈment(ə)ɹi/
• Rhymes: -ɛntəɹi

parliamentary (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.

   Parliamentary procedures are sometimes slow.

2. 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.

3. (British, historical, railways) 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.
   • 1931, Francis Beeding, “1/1”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps‎^[1]:

     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.

• non-parliamentary, nonparliamentary
• unparliamentary

parliamentary (plural parliamentaries)

1. (UK, historical) A parliamentary train.