Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having or consisting of a single legislative chamber.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Consisting of a single chamber: said of a legislative body.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, or having a single legislative chamber.
- adj. That it makes no distinction between upper and lower case, but rather has only one case.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having, or consisting of, a single chamber; -- said of a legislative assembly.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. composed of one legislative body
Etymologies
- uni- + Latin camera, chamber; see camera + -al1.
Examples
“But the most simple is something known as the unicameral bone cyst.”
“Suriname unicameral National Assembly or Nationale Assemblee (51 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) elections: last held 25 May 2005 (next to be held in 2010) election results: percent of vote by party - NF 39. 73\%, NDP 22. 2\%,”
“Suriname unicameral National Assembly or Nationale Assemblee (51 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) elections: last held 25 May 2005 (next to be held May 2010) election results: percent of vote by party - NF 41. 2\%, NDP 23. 1\%,”
“A little more in-depth study would help me determine if the unicameral is the way to go.”
“Under another interesting provision, Venezuela scrapped its bicameral legislature in favor of a unicameral structure which in theory will be more in tune with the country's needs.”
“The Venezuelan strongman had promised that his candidates would win two-thirds of the unicameral congress, guaranteeing it would continue to be a rubber stamp.”
“Turkey on the other hand is visibly a secular republic whose constitution derives its "sovereignty" from "the people"; that sovereignty resides with the "Turkish Nation," while legislative powers are vested in the Turkish Grand National Assembly, a unicameral parliament.”
The Huffington Post: Daniel Wagner: Libya's Constitutional Moment
“An elected Upper House that represents regions may not be a bad thing, although my own preference is still for a unicameral legislature.”
“The UK is a highly centralized country with a de facto unicameral legislature, a parliamentary system, and extremely strong party discipline.”
“Matt talks a lot about the benefits of a unicameral legislature in that it removes the number of veto points in passing legislation.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unicameral’.
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Legislative Terms
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
unfinished business, third reading file, speaker pro tempore, voice vote, veto, upper house, urgency measure, unicameral, urgency clause, two-thirds vote, tombstone, third reading and 652 more...
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There is no place like Nebraska
Place names, landmarks, famous residents, "-isms," etc.
Nebraska, nebraksa, Lincoln, Omaha, Grand Island, Kearney, Carhenge, Pioneer Village, Valentine, husker, cornhusker, There is no place... and 125 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 1128 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Words that make me want to drink single malt sc...
You know that feeling when you hear a word that you just want to roll it around in your mouth, experiment with it, find its edges and texture. Words that you want to clink around in a glass with so...
melt, agronomy, cartilage, vexatious, scintillating, carrion, caryopsis, crystallite, haulm, alegar, maltster, carpel and 31 more...
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Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue's Capitol
vestibule, foyer, mosaic, tessera, tower, elevator, observation deck, rotunda, guilloche, unicameral, legislature, supreme court and 76 more...

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