parliamentarian
noun
- 1
A member of a parliament, congress or an elected national legislative body of another name.
- 2
A person well-versed in parliamentary procedure.
- 3
An officer in most legislative bodies charged with being well-versed in the parliamentary rules of that legislative house, and whose rulings are taken as authoritative, to be appealed only to the whole of the house itself under special rules.
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adjective
- 1
Of or relating to a parliament; favouring the establishment of a parliament.
“a parliamentarian democracy; the parliamentarian movement”
- 2
Of or relating to the Parliamentarians (supporters of the parliament during the English Civil War (1642–1651)).
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