单词 | railway bill |
释义 | > as lemmasrailway bill railway bill n. (also with capital initials) a legislative bill concerned with railways. ΚΠ 1803 Times 7 Apr. The Surrey Railway Bill was read a third time. 1888 Dict. National Biogr. XV. 164/2 He was..in successful business in London as a solicitor, chiefly in connection with railway bills and cases of appeal. 1926 J. H. Clapham Econ. Hist. Mod. Brit. ix. 387 During the two years 1836–7, thirty-nine more railway bills for new lines in Great Britain received the royal assent. 1992 Social Sci. Hist. 16 542 The procedure used to consider private bills has been quasi-judicial since 1855 (1844 for railway bills). < as lemmas |
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