单词 | lower chamber |
释义 | > as lemmaslower chamber lower chamber n. (also with capital initials) = lower house n. 1; cf. upper chamber n. at upper adj. Additions. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > a chamber or house of > lower lower chamber1670 1670 London Gaz. No. 522/1 Members of the Lower Chamber of the Diet. 1807 Morning Post 12 Oct. The next legislative body will be composed of two Chambers, viz, an Upper Chamber..; and a Lower Chamber, composed of Deputies, from all the departments. 1885 C. Lowe Life Bismarck I. 293 The Lower Chamber would not yield an inch to the Crown and the Upper House. 1940 Ann. Reg. 1939 253 A vote of no-confidence was carried in the Lower Chamber. 1994 Harper's Mag. Aug. 14/1 The list..is kept by the secretariat of the Lok Sabha, the lower chamber of India's parliament. < as lemmas |
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