Parliamentaryとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑːləˈmentəɹi/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑːɹləˈmentəɹi/

形容詞

parliamentary (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament

   Parliamentary procedures are sometimes slow.

2. Having the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament.

   Britain is a parliamentary democracy.

3. (Britain, 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.

派生語

• parliamentary train

名詞

parliamentary (複数形 parliamentaries)

1. (Britain, historical) A parliamentary train.