Definitions

upper house

NOUN

small and less representative legislature

Synonyms

WEAK

House of Lords House of Peers US Senate

Example Sentences

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Lord Bethell, a Conservative health minister during the Covid-19 pandemic, has also announced his intention to leave the upper house.

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Lords Leader Baroness Smith said the "historic legislation" realised Labour's manifesto pledge to remove the right of all hereditary peers to sit and vote in the upper house.

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The Conservative leader in the Lords, Lord True, said he accepted the government's mandate to end hereditary membership of the upper house.

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Lords sources said talks had been held, with one suggesting the number of life peerages offered would depend on how many Tory members of the upper house agree to retire.

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Last October, Jeremy Buckingham, a member of NSW Legislative Council, the state's upper house, used parliamentary privilege to name the suspect.

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