parliamentary

Definitions

1. adjective

   Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.

   Example

   • Parliamentary procedures are sometimes slow.
2. adjective

   Having the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament.

   Example

   • The UK is a parliamentary democracy.
3. adjective

   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.

   Example

   • 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.
4. noun

   A parliamentary train.