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Parliamentarian vs Parliamentary - What's the difference?

parliamentarian | parliamentary |

As adjectives the difference between parliamentarian and parliamentary

is that parliamentarian is of or relating to parliament while parliamentary is of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.

As a noun parliamentarian

is a member of a parliament, congress or an elected national legislative body of another name.

parliamentarian

Noun

(en noun)
  • A member of a parliament, congress or an elected national legislative body of another name.
  • A person well-versed in parliamentary procedure.
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (member of parliament) congressman, MP

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to parliament.
  • (Wood)

    parliamentary

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament
  • Parliamentary procedures are sometimes slow
  • 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
  • (British) A class of train (see )
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  • , title=Death Walks in Eastrepps , chapter=1/1 citation , passage=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.}}