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lower house [ loh -er ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈloʊ ər / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun
one of two branches of a legislature, generally more representative and with more members than the upper branch.
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Origin of lower house First recorded in 1570–80
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How to use lower house in a sentence The first decision said that the lower house s of every state had to be apportioned based on population—not geography.
Every seat in Mexico’s lower house of congress was up for grabs, as were half of the country’s governorships, and thousands of mayoral and local legislative offices.
He’ll remain a member of the parliament’s lower house afterward and key party member.
This Congress will welcome more women than ever before at 19 percent of the House and 20 percent of the Senate.
Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.
He then provides some insight into his psyche - complete with Animal House reference.
Even the arguably more democratic House is only at 10 percent black members.
While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.
It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.
On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.
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British Dictionary definitions for lower house
noun
one of the two houses of a bicameral legislature: usually the larger and more representative house Also called: lower chamber Compare upper house Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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