Synonyms for parliament
ˈpɑr lə mənt; sometimes ˈpɑrl yə-par·lia·ment

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1. parliamentnoun

   a legislative assembly in certain countries

   Synonyms:
   fantan, sevens

2. fantan, sevens, parliamentnoun

   a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards

   Synonyms:
   fantan, sevens, fan tan

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1. parliamentnoun

   Synonyms:
   house of lords and House of Commons (of Great Britain and Ireland)

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1. List of paraphrases for "parliament":

   house, parliamentary, parliaments, chamber, parlement, ep, legislature, parlamento, parlamentu, assembly, parlament, riksdag

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1. Theresa May:

   If the proposal were to go back to square one and negotiate a new deal, that would mean a much longer extension – almost certainly requiring the United Kingdom to participate in the European Parliament elections in May, the idea of the British people going to the polls to elect MEPs three years after voting to leave the EU hardly bears thinking about. There could be no more potent symbol of parliament's collective political failure.

2. Jane Ellison:

   I now propose that we lay regulations for standardised packaging in this parliament to allow for them to come into force at the same time as the European Tobacco Products Directive in May 2016, in doing so we would be bringing the prospect of our first smoke-free generation one step closer.

3. Shah Mehmood Qureshi:

   We need numbers (in parliament), unless we have numbers, how do we implement the agenda for change?

4. Yannis Dragasakis:

   We haven't received any( bailout) tranches since August 2014 but we have been meeting all of our obligations, this has its limits. European Central Bank agreed late on Wednesday to raise the limit on emergency lending to Greek banks by 400 million euros to 69.8 billion, banking sources said. Bankers said savers withdrew about 300 million euros in deposits on Wednesday. European Parliament President Martin Schulz said Greece's financial situation was.

5. Grant Rumley:

   Rather than reforming his party, preparing for elections, or reactivating the defunct parliament, (Abbas) is creating another judicial body by presidential decree in order to, among other things, approve presidential decrees.