Tra từ parliament - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

1 parliaments and their members
2 working in parliament
see also GOVERNMENT, POLITICS

1 parliaments and their members
- a group of people who discuss and make the laws of a country; the place where they meet: parliament; adjective: parliamentary
parliamentary democracy
- in different countries this institution is called Parliament (noun singular), Congress (noun singular), the National Assembly
Parliament (= the UK Parliament) has agreed to send aid to the area.
- connected with Congress: congressional
a congressional committee
- many parliaments consist of two parts: a lower house and an upper house
- in the British Parliament, the lower house is the House of Commons, the Commons; the upper house is the House of Lords, the Lords
- in the United States Congress, the lower house is the House of Representatives; the upper house is the Senate
- a person who has been elected to Parliament, Congress, etc: member (of sth)
- a member of the House of Commons: Member of Parliament (MP)
- a member of the European Parliament: MEP (Member of the European Parliament)
- a member of the House of Lords: peer; a male peer is called Lord ※¦; a female peer is called Lady ※¦
Lord Owen ◎ Lady Thatcher
- a member of the US House of Representatives: Congressman/woman (plural Congressmen/women)
Congressman Jones
- a member of the US Senate: Senator
Senator Smith
- a district that has its own member of parliament: constituency; a person who lives in a constituency: constituent
- a place in parliament that sb wins in an election: seat
※ more on elections ELECTION
- the building in which the United Kingdom parliament works: the Houses of Parliament
- the building in which the United States Congress works: the Capitol
- the person who controls business in the House of Commons or the US Congress: the Speaker
- a member of the UK Parliament who does not have an important position in a political party: backbencher, backbench MP

2 working in parliament
- a meeting of parliament: sitting; a series of meetings of parliament: session
an all-night sitting ◎ the 1993/4 session of parliament
- when parliament is meeting, it is in session
- to have a meeting or a series of meetings: sit*
Parliament was still sitting at 3 am
- formal discussion or argument of a topic in parliament, etc: debate; verb: debate (sth)
a debate on capital punishment. ◎ The Lords are still debating the Government's proposals.
- to make a law or laws: legislate (for/against sth); the act of making laws; the laws that are made: legislation (noun U)
The government is seeking to legislate against racial discrimination. ◎ to introduce new legislation on obscenity
- to introduce a new law, etc: bring* sth in, introduce sth
The government want to bring in a law to ban cruelty to animals.
- a plan for a possible new law: bill
Parliament is debating a bill that would reduce income tax by 5%.
- a law made by a government: act
the 1983 Mental Health Act