senate
参议院,元老院,元老会,议院
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Definitions
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- : an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
- : the upper house of the legislature of certain countries, as the United States, France, Italy, Canada, Ireland, Republic of South Africa, Australia, and some Latin American countries.
- : the room or building in which such a group meets.
- : Roman History. the supreme council of state, the membership and functions of which varied at different periods.
- : a governing, advisory, or disciplinary body, as in certain universities.
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Examples
He was set to testify before the state senate, where a bill to finally repeal the 50a secrecy law was being considered.
On March 19, the faculty senate on March 19 passed a resolution urging the university to strike the names.
This is going to be the Game of Thrones of U.S. Senate races.
This Congress will welcome more women than ever before at 19 percent of the House and 20 percent of the Senate.
AIDS insanity: When running for the US Senate in 1992, Huckabee called for a quarantine of people who had AIDS.
It was a Senate floor soap opera over none other than a soap-opera producer.
He seemed by all appearances perfectly happy to let the Republicans control the state senate.
He was afterwards a member of the Massachusetts senate, and much esteemed as a physician and a patriot.
The conservative senate sent a deputation to Bonaparte, expressing their desire that he would accept the title of emperor.
This power may be exercised, either through treaties made by the president and senate, or through statutes enacted by congress.
In due course the news came that the date of voting in the Senate for or against the retention of the Islands was fixed.