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From parliament + -ary.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpɑːləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌpɑɹləˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌpaːləˈment(ə)ɹi/
- Rhymes: -ɛntəɹi
parliamentary (not comparable)
- Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.
Parliamentary procedures are sometimes slow.
- 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.
- (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.
of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament
- Arabic: بَرْلَمَانِيّ (barlamāniyy)
- Armenian: խորհրդարանական (hy) (xorhrdaranakan), պառլամենտական (hy) (paṙlamentakan)
- Asturian: parllamentariu
- Belarusian: парла́менцкі (parlámjencki), парля́мэнцкі (parljámencki)
- Bulgarian: парламента́рен (bg) (parlamentáren)
- Catalan: parlamentari (ca)
- Czech: parlamentní (cs)
- Dutch: parlementair (nl)
- Esperanto: parlamenta
- French: parlementaire (fr)
- Georgian: პარლამენტარული (ṗarlamenṭaruli), საპარლამენტო (saṗarlamenṭo)
- German: parlamentarisch (de)
- Greek: κοινοβουλευτικός (el) (koinovouleftikós)
- Hungarian: országgyűlési (hu), parlamenti (hu)
- Indonesian: parlementer (id)
- Macedonian: парламента́рен (parlamentáren)
- Malay: parlimen (ms) (English-influenced), parlementer (Dutch-influenced)
- Manx: ard-whaiylagh
- Marathi: संसदीय (sausdīy)
- Polish: parlamentarny (pl)
- Portuguese: parlamentar (pt)
- Romanian: parlamentar (ro)
- Romansch: parlamentari
- Russian: парла́ментский (ru) (parlámentskij)
- Slovak: parlamentný
- Slovene: parlamentaren
- Spanish: parlamentario (es)
- Swedish: parlamentarisk (sv)
- Tagalog: pambatasan
- Ukrainian: парла́ментський (parlámentsʹkyj)
- Urdu: پارْلِیمانِی f (pārlīmānī)
- Vietnamese: quốc hội (vi)
- Welsh: seneddol (cy)
having the supreme executive and legislative power
parliamentary (plural parliamentaries)
- (UK, historical) A parliamentary train.