PARLIAMENTARY LAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parliamentary law mean? 

• PARLIAMENTARY LAW (noun)
  The noun PARLIAMENTARY LAW has 1 sense:

1. a body of rules followed by an assembly

  Familiarity information: PARLIAMENTARY LAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARLIAMENTARY LAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A body of rules followed by an assembly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

order; parliamentary law; parliamentary procedure; rules of order

Hypernyms ("parliamentary law" is a kind of...):

prescript; rule (prescribed guide for conduct or action)

Domain member category:

mover; proposer ((parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parliamentary law"):

interpellation ((parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy)

standing order (a rule of order permanently in force)

closure; cloture; gag law; gag rule (a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body)

point of order (a question as to whether the current proceedings are allowed by parliamentary procedure)

previous question (a motion calling for an immediate vote on the main question under discussion by a deliberative assembly)

Instance hyponyms:

Robert's Rules of Order (a book of rules for presiding over a meeting; written by Henry M. Martin in 1876 and subsequently updated through many editions)