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- (informal) Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives.
- Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.
- (colloquial, usually humorous) Not, does not, do not, etc.
- (without adjective, now Scotland, informal) Not.
- not in any degree or manner; not at all
- used to express refusal or denial or disagreement etc. or especially to emphasize a negative statement
- referring to the degree to which a certain quality is present
- Supporting, in favour of.
- Because of.
- Indicating something desired or anticipated.
- So as to identify or locate.
- In the role or capacity of; instead of; in place of.
- To be used or treated in a stated way, or with a stated purpose.
- By the standards of, usually with the implication that those standards are lower than one might otherwise expect; considering.
- (commerce) For the price of.
- In order to cure, remove or counteract.
- (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
- Befitting of someone’s beliefs, needs, wants, skills, or tastes; best suited to.
- In exchange for; in correspondence or equivalence with.
- In order to help, benefit, gratify, honor etc. (someone or something).
- Directed at; intended to belong to.
- So as to allow (something or someone) to take position.
- In order to obtain or acquire.
- Throughout or across (a distance in space).
- (nonstandard) So (that), in order to
- Used in various other more-or-less idiomatic ways to construe individual verbs, indicating various semantic relationships such as target, purpose, result, etc.; see also the entries for individual phrasal verbs, e.g. ask for, look for, stand for, etc.
- On behalf of.
- Towards; in the direction of.
- Over (a period of time).
- Used to introduce a subject of a to-infinitive clause.
- (with names, chiefly US) In honor of; after.
- To be, or as being.
- (usually in the phrase 'for all') Despite, in spite of.
- In anticipation of.
- (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
- (UK) Due for or facing (a certain outcome or fate).
- (in expressions such as 'for a start') Introducing the first item(s) in a potential sequence .
- (slang, historical) A chemical prophylaxis taken after sex to avoid contracting venereal disease.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- A professional sportsman.
- A person who supports a concept or principle.
- (colloquial) Professional.
- An advantage of something, especially when contrasted with its disadvantages (cons).
- an argument in favor of a proposal
- an athlete who plays for pay
- The right to vote at a public election or referendum; see: suffrage.
- (sports) The collection of organizations in the history of a sports team; the tradition of a sports team as an entity, extending beyond the contemporary organization.
- A business operating under such authorization, a franchisee.
- (business, marketing) The positive influence on the buying behavior of customers exerted by the reputation of a company or a brand.
- Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
- The membership of a corporation or state; citizenship.
- A legal exemption from jurisdiction.
- The authorization granted by a company to sell or distribute its goods or services in a certain area.
- The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.
- The loose collection of fictional works pertaining to a particular fictional universe, including literary, film, or television series from various sources, generally when all authorized by a copyright holder or similar authority.
- A right or privilege officially granted to a person, a group of people, or a company by a government.
- An acknowledgment of a corporation's existence and ownership.
- a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area
- an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place
- a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
- (transitive, UK, Ireland) To yield assent to; to approve.
- (intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
- (intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
- (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
- (intransitive, law) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
- (intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
- (intransitive) To resemble; to coincide; to correspond; to tally.
- (intransitive, followed by "to") To give assent; to accede.
- be in accord; be in agreement
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- go together
- be agreeable or suitable
- consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something
- achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose
- show grammatical agreement
- (UK, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
- (algebra, ring theory, of a polynomial with coefficients in a GCD domain) The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.
- The amount of material contained.
- Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
- (uncountable) That which is contained.
- That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
- (Internet, colloquial) The potential of creative work for a content creator.
- (UK, House of Lords, by metonymy) A member who votes in assent.
- Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
- (mathematics) The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
- (by extension, uncountable) One or more creative works.
- the amount that can be contained
- (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
- content communicating a message; what something is about
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
- the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.
- the state of being contented with your situation in life
- In support of.
- (sometimes regarded as nonstandard, US, informal) Following, subsequent to; as a result or consequence of; because of.
- (figuratively) Concealed by (something serving as a facade or disguise).
- (figuratively) In the past, from the viewpoint of.
- At or to the back or far side of.
- After in time.
- Responsible for, being the creator or controller of.
- Underlying, being the reason for or explanation of.
- After in developmental progress, score, grade, etc.; inferior to.
- After in physical progress or distance.
- Backward in time or order of succession; past.
- Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
- So as to be still in place after someone or something has departed or ceased to exist.
- In a rearward direction.
- So as to come after someone or something in position, distance, advancement, ranking, time, etc.
- At or in the rear or back part of something.
- in or into an inferior position
- in debt
- remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from
- showing a time that is earlier than the actual time
- in or to or toward the rear
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) The catcher.
- In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal).
- (Australian rules football) A one-point score.
- The rear, back-end.
- (informal) The buttocks, bottom, butt.
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- In support of.
- Affected by (a certain emotion or condition).
- Considering; taking into account.
- Used to add supplemental information, especially to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
- Using as an instrument; by means of.
- In regard to.
- In addition to; as an accessory to.
- Keeping up with; understanding; following along.
- Against.
- Prompted by (a certain emotion).
- Having, owning.
- In the employment of.
- In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
- Synonym of plebiscite (“a direct popular vote on an issue of public importance, such as an amendment to the constitution, a change in the sovereignty of the nation, or some government policy; a referendum”).
- (Ancient Rome) A law enacted by the plebs, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the senate's intervention.
- A decision that gains the acceptance of the majority of voters in a decision-making body, such as a parliament, municipal council or shareholders' meeting.
- (competitive fighting) An outcome in several full-contact combat sports where two of the three judges agree on which fighter won the match, while the third judge indicates that neither fighter won (i.e., a "draw").
- a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance
- (law, politics) A direct popular vote on an issue of public importance, such as an amendment to the constitution, a change in the sovereignty of the nation, or some government policy.
- (by extension) An expression of the public's views on an issue, whether legally binding or not.
- (Ancient Rome, historical) Synonym of plebiscitum (“a law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate”).
- (politics) An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.
- A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
- A beginning; a first move.
- The ability to act first or on one's own.
- the first of a series of actions
- readiness to embark on bold new ventures
- (UK politics) One who supports remaining in the European Union.
- A forward who plays in or near the center of the field.
- (South Africa) A duvet, excluding the cover.
- An inner part.
- (military, firearms) The 2nd circle on a target, between the bull (or bull's eye) and magpie.
- (cricket) A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves.
- Inside or closer to the inside of the body.
- Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something.
- Of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual, relating to somebody's private feelings or happening in somebody's mind, existing as an often repressed part of one's psychological makeup.
- Close to the centre, located near or closer to center.
- Not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure; innermost or essential; needing to be examined closely or thought about in order to be seen or understood.
- Privileged, more or most privileged, more or most influential, intimate, exclusive, more important, more intimate, private, secret, confined to an exclusive group, exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence being near a center especially of influence.
- located inward
- confined to an exclusive group
- located or occurring within or closer to a center
- exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence
- innermost or essential
- inside or closer to the inside of the body
- (UK, Ireland) Support for the union of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
- A more extreme form of patriotism; the idea of a more extreme support for one's country, people or culture.
- Support for the creation of a sovereign nation (which does not currently exist).
- the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other
- the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination
- the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals
- love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
- the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
- (countable) A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
- (countable) A kind of large black sweet, a black-colored gobstopper.
- (countable) A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.
- A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
- (uncountable) A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.
- having a negative charge
- not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition
- expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial
- having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant
- designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
- reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive
- involving disadvantage or harm
- characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features
- less than zero
- (New Age jargon, derogatory) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
- Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
- Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
- (often used pejoratively) Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
- Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
- (slang) COVID-19 negative.
- (medicine) Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
- (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
- (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
- (hyperbolic) No, not any, zero.
- (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero.
- (slang) HIV negative.
- (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
- (weather) Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- a reply of denial
- a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed
- (mathematics) A negative quantity.
- (logic) A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
- (law) A right of veto.
- Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
- An unfavorable point or characteristic.
- (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
- (weightlifting) A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
- (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
- The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- a vote that blocks a decision
- the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature)
- An invocation of that right.
- A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment.
- An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
- A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
- (Commonwealth) A member of a parliament, congress or an elected national legislative body of another name.
- A person well-versed in parliamentary procedure.
- (US) An officer in most legislative bodies charged with being well-versed in the parliamentary rules of that legislative house, and whose rulings are taken as authoritative, to be appealed only to the whole of the house itself under special rules.
- an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures
- an elected member of the British Parliament: a member of the House of Commons
- (UK politics) One who supports leaving the European Union.
- (military, firearms) The fourth circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.
- Someone who admits to something publicly.
- An outer part.
- (sports) An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.
- Someone who outs another.
- A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
- An ouster; dispossession.
- (retail) The smallest single unit sold by wholesalers to retailers, usually one retail display box.
- One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
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- (informal) Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives.
- Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.
- (colloquial, usually humorous) Not, does not, do not, etc.
- (without adjective, now Scotland, informal) Not.
- not in any degree or manner; not at all
- used to express refusal or denial or disagreement etc. or especially to emphasize a negative statement
- referring to the degree to which a certain quality is present
- The right to vote at a public election or referendum; see: suffrage.
- (sports) The collection of organizations in the history of a sports team; the tradition of a sports team as an entity, extending beyond the contemporary organization.
- A business operating under such authorization, a franchisee.
- (business, marketing) The positive influence on the buying behavior of customers exerted by the reputation of a company or a brand.
- Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
- The membership of a corporation or state; citizenship.
- A legal exemption from jurisdiction.
- The authorization granted by a company to sell or distribute its goods or services in a certain area.
- The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.
- The loose collection of fictional works pertaining to a particular fictional universe, including literary, film, or television series from various sources, generally when all authorized by a copyright holder or similar authority.
- A right or privilege officially granted to a person, a group of people, or a company by a government.
- An acknowledgment of a corporation's existence and ownership.
- a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area
- an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place
- a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
- (UK, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
- (algebra, ring theory, of a polynomial with coefficients in a GCD domain) The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.
- The amount of material contained.
- Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
- (uncountable) That which is contained.
- That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
- (Internet, colloquial) The potential of creative work for a content creator.
- (UK, House of Lords, by metonymy) A member who votes in assent.
- Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
- (mathematics) The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
- (by extension, uncountable) One or more creative works.
- the amount that can be contained
- (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
- content communicating a message; what something is about
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
- the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.
- the state of being contented with your situation in life
- Synonym of plebiscite (“a direct popular vote on an issue of public importance, such as an amendment to the constitution, a change in the sovereignty of the nation, or some government policy; a referendum”).
- (Ancient Rome) A law enacted by the plebs, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the senate's intervention.
- A decision that gains the acceptance of the majority of voters in a decision-making body, such as a parliament, municipal council or shareholders' meeting.
- (competitive fighting) An outcome in several full-contact combat sports where two of the three judges agree on which fighter won the match, while the third judge indicates that neither fighter won (i.e., a "draw").
- a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance
- (law, politics) A direct popular vote on an issue of public importance, such as an amendment to the constitution, a change in the sovereignty of the nation, or some government policy.
- (by extension) An expression of the public's views on an issue, whether legally binding or not.
- (Ancient Rome, historical) Synonym of plebiscitum (“a law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate”).
- (politics) An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.
- A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
- A beginning; a first move.
- The ability to act first or on one's own.
- the first of a series of actions
- readiness to embark on bold new ventures
- (UK politics) One who supports remaining in the European Union.
- A forward who plays in or near the center of the field.
- (South Africa) A duvet, excluding the cover.
- An inner part.
- (military, firearms) The 2nd circle on a target, between the bull (or bull's eye) and magpie.
- (cricket) A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves.
- Inside or closer to the inside of the body.
- Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something.
- Of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual, relating to somebody's private feelings or happening in somebody's mind, existing as an often repressed part of one's psychological makeup.
- Close to the centre, located near or closer to center.
- Not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure; innermost or essential; needing to be examined closely or thought about in order to be seen or understood.
- Privileged, more or most privileged, more or most influential, intimate, exclusive, more important, more intimate, private, secret, confined to an exclusive group, exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence being near a center especially of influence.
- located inward
- confined to an exclusive group
- located or occurring within or closer to a center
- exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence
- innermost or essential
- inside or closer to the inside of the body
- (UK, Ireland) Support for the union of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
- A more extreme form of patriotism; the idea of a more extreme support for one's country, people or culture.
- Support for the creation of a sovereign nation (which does not currently exist).
- the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other
- the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination
- the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals
- love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
- (UK politics) One who supports leaving the European Union.
- (military, firearms) The fourth circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.
- Someone who admits to something publicly.
- An outer part.
- (sports) An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.
- Someone who outs another.
- A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
- An ouster; dispossession.
- (retail) The smallest single unit sold by wholesalers to retailers, usually one retail display box.
- One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
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- (transitive, UK, Ireland) To yield assent to; to approve.
- (intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
- (intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
- (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
- (intransitive, law) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
- (intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
- (intransitive) To resemble; to coincide; to correspond; to tally.
- (intransitive, followed by "to") To give assent; to accede.
- be in accord; be in agreement
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- go together
- be agreeable or suitable
- consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something
- achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose
- show grammatical agreement
- the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
- (countable) A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
- (countable) A kind of large black sweet, a black-colored gobstopper.
- (countable) A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.
- A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
- (uncountable) A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.
- having a negative charge
- not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition
- expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial
- having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant
- designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
- reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive
- involving disadvantage or harm
- characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features
- less than zero
- (New Age jargon, derogatory) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
- Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
- Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
- (often used pejoratively) Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
- Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
- (slang) COVID-19 negative.
- (medicine) Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
- (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
- (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
- (hyperbolic) No, not any, zero.
- (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero.
- (slang) HIV negative.
- (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
- (weather) Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- a reply of denial
- a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed
- (mathematics) A negative quantity.
- (logic) A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
- (law) A right of veto.
- Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
- An unfavorable point or characteristic.
- (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
- (weightlifting) A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
- (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
- The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- a vote that blocks a decision
- the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature)
- An invocation of that right.
- A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment.
- An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
- A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
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- (slang, historical) A chemical prophylaxis taken after sex to avoid contracting venereal disease.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- A professional sportsman.
- A person who supports a concept or principle.
- (colloquial) Professional.
- An advantage of something, especially when contrasted with its disadvantages (cons).
- an argument in favor of a proposal
- an athlete who plays for pay
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- (slang, historical) A chemical prophylaxis taken after sex to avoid contracting venereal disease.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- A professional sportsman.
- A person who supports a concept or principle.
- (colloquial) Professional.
- An advantage of something, especially when contrasted with its disadvantages (cons).
- an argument in favor of a proposal
- an athlete who plays for pay
- (Commonwealth) A member of a parliament, congress or an elected national legislative body of another name.
- A person well-versed in parliamentary procedure.
- (US) An officer in most legislative bodies charged with being well-versed in the parliamentary rules of that legislative house, and whose rulings are taken as authoritative, to be appealed only to the whole of the house itself under special rules.
- an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures
- an elected member of the British Parliament: a member of the House of Commons