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parliamentary agent

British  

noun

  1. (in Britain) a person who is employed to manage the parliamentary business of a private group

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Mr. Roche, after this, resided for some time in London as parliamentary agent.

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Then was the harvest-time of scheming lawyers, parliamentary agents, engineers, surveyors, and traffic-takers, who were ready to take up any railway scheme however desperate, and to prove any amount of traffic even where none existed. 

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"Don't much care either way," said the parliamentary agent.

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"Bless you, so does everybody," said the parliamentary agent; "but somehow there is a lot of queer work must be done to get fairly seated on the benches."

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He was, of course, a good deal intent upon his coming election, and spent much of his time with Mr Nearthewinde, the celebrated parliamentary agent.

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