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bicameral
[ bahy-kam-er-uhl ]
adjective
- having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.
bicameral
/ baɪˈkæmərəl /
adjective
- (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
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Derived Forms
- biˈcameralˌism, noun
- biˈcameralist, noun
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Other Words From
- bi·camer·al·ism noun
- bi·camer·al·ist noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bicameral1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bicameral1
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Example Sentences
Almost immediately afterward, lawmakers began calling for the creation of an independent bicameral commission to investigate the Capitol attack.
Klobuchar is a co-sponsor of the Open App Markets Act, a bipartisan, bicameral bill that would do most of what Epic Games wanted.
Though that plan was the product of bipartisan negotiation and had bipartisan, bicameral support, GOP opponents were already attacking it as partisan before blocking it for good on Friday.
On his return to Japan, Onoda was feted, and briefly tipped to run for the Diet, the Japanese bicameral parliament.
All too often, the march of folly has been bicameral, as well as bipartisan.
But the non-Nebraska states have bicameral legislatures for no real reason.
At the national level, we have a bicameral legislature because of the overall workings of the federal system.
It is a bicameral legislature composed of an upper house, the Senate, and a lower house, the House of Delegates.
The importance of the bicameral system is strongly insisted upon by the commentator of the Constitution.
In structure it represents a curious cross between the principles of unicameral and bicameral organization.
The legislative branch in North Dakota consists of a bicameral legislature which meets in January each odd-numbered year.
The two houses of Parliament had made the colonists accustomed to the bicameral system.
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