tricameral

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Neither side will recognize the other's leadership claims - meaning that the Legislature has become, in essence, tricameral: an Assembly and two Senates.

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  • We were in a motorcade protesting against the apartheid government's upcoming tricameral parliament.
  • Despite his checkered history, including participation in apartheid's much-criticised 1980s tricameral Parliament, Rajbansi is the province's sports minister. —  Mail & Guardian Online
  • Feel free to remove this template and take up the conversation with a fresh start. tricameral parliament —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Your comments are at variance with all the published work I have ever read on the UK constitutional structure, and unless you can provide me with two academic published references for this unknown concept of "tricameral" UK parliament, it will not be changed. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • (unicameral, bicameral, tricameral), formal name, number of seats, and term of office. —  The 2000 CIA World Factbook
 

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  1. tri- + Latin camera, chamber; see camera + -al1.
 

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