parliamentary

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.

   “Parliamentary procedures are sometimes slow.”

2. (not-comparable)Having the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament.

   “The UK is a parliamentary democracy.”

3. (British, historical, not-comparable)Of a class of train which, by an act of parliament, ran both ways along a line, at least once each day, at the rate of one penny per mile.

   “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.”

noun

1. (UK, historical)A parliamentary train.