One of the chambers of a bicameral legislature or parliament, typically larger and more representative than the upper house, with members elected…
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| 释义 | 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 (7) lower house1523 One of the chambers of a bicameral legislature or parliament, typically larger and more representative than the upper house, with members elected… upper house1532 a higher house of deliberation or legislation, esp. the House of Lords. upper chamber1753 = upper house n. at sense 17; cf. lower chamber n. at lower, adj. n.1adv. compounds 2b. senate1776 An assembly or council of citizens charged with the highest deliberative functions in the government… In the 18th and 19th centuries adopted as… state senate1791 the upper house of the legislature in a state of the United States; (also) a similar legislative body in other countries. second chamber1828 in a legislature consisting of two chambers, the one which has chiefly the function of revising the measures prepared and passed by other; also attrib… Subcategories:— member of (1) |
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