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, parliament, 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. President Nursultan Nazarbayev:

   There could be redistribution of power between the president, the parliament and the government, as for when that is going to happen, we will look at the situation in the economy, globally and within the country.

2. Jeremy Hunt:

   We can get this deal through parliament, if we can have a deal where the attorney general can change his advice to parliament. That is going to be key to unlocking it, with vision and statesmanship on both sides, this can be done and I am hopeful it will be.

3. Industry Minister Monica Maeland:

   This is information that both the Norwegian Parliament's Control and Constitutional Committee and I should have received earlier. I believe this is serious, it is my view that the board of Telenor has not handled this case well enough.

4. John Bercow:

   If we come close to being there I would imagine that parliament would want to cut off such a possibility and to do so forcefully, if that demands additional procedural creativity in order to come to pass it is a racing certainty that this will happen and that neither the limitations of the existing rulebook nor the ticking of the clock will stop it doing so.

5. Duygu Cagdas:

   I don’t understand, we have over 250 people killed, soldiers beaten in the streets, a parliament targeted by our own country’s jets, and yet we are taking to the streets to celebrate.