Chiltern Hundreds

[ chil-tern ]

/ ˈtʃɪl tərn /

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plural noun British.

certain crown lands, the stewardship of which is nominally bestowed on a member of the House of Commons to provide an excuse to resign, as members are not allowed to hold titular office from the crown.

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Idioms about Chiltern Hundreds

to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds, to resign or express a desire to resign from the House of Commons.

Words nearby Chiltern Hundreds

Chilon, chiloplasty, chilopod, Chilpancingo, Chiltern Hills, Chiltern Hundreds, Chiluba, Chilung, chimaera, chimb, Chimborazo

How to use Chiltern Hundreds in a sentence

The American military may have launched hundreds of airstrikes on Iraq and Syria.
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If ISIS “came into a base and killed hundreds of troops, then people would ask a lot more questions.”
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Some “hanging judges” have handed down hundreds of death sentences at a time.
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And the cameras on the busier streets would show hundreds of people going past.
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Over the next six months hundreds of same-sex couples married.
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We have made several hundreds prisoners, and have killed a multitude of the enemy.
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Hundreds of soldiers already lined the streets to keep the crowd back out of the way of the procession.
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From some points, hundreds of acres of the Swedish and French may be seen, and they are rarely or never out of view.
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A suitable stone for such a purpose will be picked up and carried hundreds of miles.
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Competing stores needlessly occupy the time of hundreds of thousands of employees in a mixture of idleness and industry.
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British Dictionary definitions for Chiltern Hundreds

Chiltern Hundreds

pl n

(in Britain) short for Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds; a nominal office that an MP applies for in order to resign his seat

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