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bicameral

/bahy-kam-er-uhl/US // baɪˈkæm ər əl //UK // (baɪˈkæmərəl) //

两院制,两院,两院的,两院院士

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Government.

    • : having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.

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Examples

  • Though that plan was the product of bipartisan negotiation and had bipartisan, bicameral support, GOP opponents were already attacking it as partisan before blocking it for good on Friday.

  • On his return to Japan, Onoda was feted, and briefly tipped to run for the Diet, the Japanese bicameral parliament.

  • All too often, the march of folly has been bicameral, as well as bipartisan.

  • But the non-Nebraska states have bicameral legislatures for no real reason.

  • At the national level, we have a bicameral legislature because of the overall workings of the federal system.

  • It is a bicameral legislature composed of an upper house, the Senate, and a lower house, the House of Delegates.

  • The importance of the bicameral system is strongly insisted upon by the commentator of the Constitution.

  • In structure it represents a curious cross between the principles of unicameral and bicameral organization.

  • The legislative branch in North Dakota consists of a bicameral legislature which meets in January each odd-numbered year.

  • The two houses of Parliament had made the colonists accustomed to the bicameral system.