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UK
/baɪkˈæmɹəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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consisting of two chambers
the bicameral heart of a fish - composed of two legislative bodies
How To Use bicameral In A Sentence
- Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament, the lower chamber of which is popularly elected for up to five years.
- The elected house speaker also serves as president of the bicameral parliament, comprising the Senate and the House of Representatives.
- We see therefore that the Framers were acutely conscious that the bicameral requirement and the Presentment Clauses would serve essential constitutional functions.
- The new Irish state was governed, like its northern counterpart, by a bicameral parliament whose procedures were loosely modelled on those of Westminster.
- We see therefore that the Framers were acutely conscious that the bicameral requirement and the Presentment Clauses would serve essential constitutional functions.
- Under a constitutional monarchy, the Tsar was Grand Duke, with a bicameral legislature.
- The proposal called for the creation of a bicameral parliament in which the upper house would represent the territorial units.
- At the state level, some of the legislatures are bicameral, patterned after the two houses of the national parliament.
- I'm not counting Hispanics in this calculus, because a) Obama hasn't exactly mamboed away with the Latino vote, and b) I can research every last niggling bicameral demographic, or I can watch Hell's Kitchen: I can't do both. David Matthews: Obama is full of it. Hope, I mean.
- Spain is a parliamentary monarchy with a bicameral legislature.