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Tekoälykääntäjä
Etsitylle sanalle löytyi useampi kirjoitusasu:
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhentunut) parlament
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- Meanings relating to a political body authorized to exercise governmental powers.
- An institution whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day and usually to exercise legislative powers and sometimes judicial powers.
- A group of representatives of the people elected or appointed to serve as a parliament (in sense 1 above) for a certain period of time. In this sense the word is commonly used with an ordinal number (for example, first parliament and 12th parliament) or a descriptive adjective (for example, Long Parliament, Short Parliament and Rump Parliament).
- A collective noun for a flock of owls or rooks.
- (historical) Parliament cake; a type of gingerbread.
Esimerkit
- The row started over who will run for parliament in a wealthy rightwing constituency on the left bank in Paris, a safe seat for Sarkozy's ruling UMP. Dati is already a local mayor in the neighbourhood, a job felt to have been handed to her on a plate when she was a Sarkozy favourite. She has since fallen from grace, and when she left government she took a European parliament seat, considered a consolation prize.
- Following the general election, Jane Doe took her oath of office as a member of the nation's fifth parliament.
- The acts made in the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraigne Charles [I], by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. [...] [book title]
- [T]he army under Lambert again thrust the Rump Parliament out of doors, and commenced a new military government, by means of a committee of officers, called the Council of Safety.
- A certain boy leaning up against me would not allow my elbow room, and struck me very sadly in the stomach part, though his own was full of my parliament.
Taivutusmuodot
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