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Presidential vs Parliamentary - What's the difference?

presidential | parliamentary |

As adjectives the difference between presidential and parliamentary

is that presidential is presiding or watching over while parliamentary is of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.

presidential

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Presiding or watching over.
  • Of or pertaining to a president; as, the presidential chair; a presidential election.
  • Derived terms

    * presidentialness

    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 )
  • *{{quote-book, year=1931, author=
  • , 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.}}