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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The official report of the proceedings and debates of a legislature in the Commonwealth of Nations, especially of the British or Canadian parliament.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A merchant of one of the Hanse towns.
  • noun The official report of the proceedings and debates of the British parliament.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers.
  • noun A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d hanse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The official report of discussions in the British and some Commonwealth parliaments.
  • noun historical A merchant of one of the Hanse towns.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the official published verbatim report of the proceedings of a parliamentary body; originally of the British Parliament

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Luke Hansard, (1752–1828), British printer.]

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About 1859. After London printer Luke Hansard (1752–1828), whose company printed and later published the British debates of parliament. The printed debates were titled Hansard from 1829.

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