member of the lawmaking body of Great Britain
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Member of parliament Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries
(1) Generally, a person either elected to the House of Commons or appointed to the Senate. (2) A person elected to a seat in the House of Commons as a representative of one of the 301 electoral districts into which Canada is divided. In debate, Members are identified not by their own names but by the names of their electoral districts.
Under the authority of the Clerk of the House of CommonsMember of parliament Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a . In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members, such as "senators".
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Member of parliament Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Noun
1. an elected member of the British Parliament: a member of the House of Commons
(synonym) Parliamentarian
(hypernym) legislator
(member-holonym) House of Commons, British House of Commons
