senate 的定义
- an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
- the upper house of the legislature of certain countries, as the United States, France, Italy, Canada, Ireland, Republic of South Africa, Australia, and some Latin American countries.
- the room or building in which such a group meets.
- Roman History. the supreme council of state, the membership and functions of which varied at different periods.
- a governing, advisory, or disciplinary body, as in certain universities.
senate 近义词
等同于 legislature
等同于 parliament
等同于 congress
等同于 council
更多senate例句
- He was set to testify before the state senate, where a bill to finally repeal the 50a secrecy law was being considered.
- On March 19, the faculty senate on March 19 passed a resolution urging the university to strike the names.
- This is going to be the Game of Thrones of U.S. Senate races.
- This Congress will welcome more women than ever before at 19 percent of the House and 20 percent of the Senate.
- AIDS insanity: When running for the US Senate in 1992, Huckabee called for a quarantine of people who had AIDS.
- It was a Senate floor soap opera over none other than a soap-opera producer.
- He seemed by all appearances perfectly happy to let the Republicans control the state senate.
- He was afterwards a member of the Massachusetts senate, and much esteemed as a physician and a patriot.
- The conservative senate sent a deputation to Bonaparte, expressing their desire that he would accept the title of emperor.
- This power may be exercised, either through treaties made by the president and senate, or through statutes enacted by congress.
- In due course the news came that the date of voting in the Senate for or against the retention of the Islands was fixed.
- That will fill in while you are waiting a chance for Congress—you must be seven years in the country for that—nine for the Senate.