Parliamentary

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Adjective

1. Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliamentParliamentary 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.Britain is a parliamentary democracy
3. (British) A class of train (see Parliamentary train)
• 1931, w, Death Walks in Eastrepps Chapter 1/1, 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.