House of Lords

American  

noun

1. the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.

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House of Lords British  

noun

1. (in Britain) the upper chamber of Parliament, composed of the peers of the realm

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House of Lords Cultural  

1. The upper house of the parliament of Britain. The House of Lords is composed of the leading clergy and nobles of the country. (Compare House of Commons.)

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Example Sentences

Lord Trees is the only vet in the House of Lords and the founder of the Veterinary Policy Research Foundation, which recently estimated that the veterinary industry broadly added £20bn of value to the UK.

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Dozens of hereditary peers are set to lose their seats in the House of Lords, after the passage of a bill that will end a parliamentary role dating back hundreds of years.

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A second, more expensive option involves moving only the House of Lords out of the building while works that could take 61 years and cost £39bn are carried out.

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Tory peer Lord Chadlington is to quit the Conservatives and retire from the House of Lords following a recommendation he be suspended from Parliament for a year.

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Ministers are offering to create more members of the House of Lords than usual later this year, in a compromise that could allow some hereditary peers to keep their seats.

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