| 单词 | upper chamber |
| 释义 | > as lemmasupper chamber upper chamber n. (also with capital initials) = upper house n. at sense 17; cf. lower chamber n. at lower adj., n.1, and adv. Compounds 2b. 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 > upper lower house1523 upper house1532 upper chamber1753 senate1776 state senate1791 second chamber1828 1753 London Daily Advertiser 22 May His Majesty on the 9th sent Letters de Cachet for every Member of the Parliament, ordering them into Banishment, so that, the Upper Chamber excepted, the whole Parliament is under Exile. 1771 Jrnls. House of Lords anno 1645 7 625/2 To the most Noble and most Honourable Lords of the Upper Chamber of the Parliament of England. 1796 T. Twining Trav. Amer. (1893) 52 From the hall of the Representatives, I went to that of the Senate, or Upper Chamber. 1860 E. Bulwer-Lytton in Q. Rev. Oct. 268/2 To implicate, not individual peers, but the Upper Chamber itself, as well as the Throne. 1988 Parl. Affairs 41 425 Early in November 1987 a vacancy occurred in the Legislative Council, the upper chamber of Tynwald. 2012 G. M. Kabaservice Rule & Ruin xii. 382 Republicans shed five incumbent Senators to throw the upper chamber into a 50–50 balance. < as lemmas |
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