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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having or consisting of a single legislative chamber.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Consisting of a single chamber: said of a legislative body.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of, or having a single legislative chamber.
  2. adj. linguistics That it makes no distinction between upper and lower case, but rather has only one case.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. rare Having, or consisting of, a single chamber; -- said of a legislative assembly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. composed of one legislative body

Etymologies

  1. uni- + Latin camera, chamber; see camera + -al1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “But the most simple is something known as the unicameral bone cyst.”

    CNN Transcript May 16, 2009

  • “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\%,”

    The 2007 CIA World Factbook

  • “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\%,”

    The 2005 CIA World Factbook

  • “A little more in-depth study would help me determine if the unicameral is the way to go.”

    KansasCity.com: Front Page

  • “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 Huffington Post: Nikolas Kozloff: Occupy Wall Street: If South Americans Can Reform Their Constitutions, Then Why Not Us?

  • “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.”

    The Wall Street Journal: A Defeat for Ch

  • “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.”

    Frogs in a pot

  • “The UK is a highly centralized country with a de facto unicameral legislature, a parliamentary system, and extremely strong party discipline.”

    Matthew Yglesias » Institutions Matter

  • “Matt talks a lot about the benefits of a unicameral legislature in that it removes the number of veto points in passing legislation.”

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame

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