Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament / Having the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament.

(UK, historical) A parliamentary train.

plural of parliamentary

Quality of being parliamentary.

plural of parliamentary procedure

plural of parliamentary agent

A person employed by private persons or societies to draft bills or manage business to be brought before parliament.

plural of parliamentary burgh

(Scotland, historical) A burgh whose boundaries, as first fixed in 1832, were adopted for municipal purposes, with regard to which they stand practically in the same position as royal burghs.

(rail transport, UK, chiefly historical) Originally a requirement in the Railway Regulation Act 1844 for railways to run at least one train a day each way, at a cost to passengers of no more than one penny a mile, on every railway line in the country. Presently the term is used for passenger trains that serve a line or station only once a day or week to avoid the cost of applying for closure.