All 6 Uses

parliamentary
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Hard Times
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'By Parliamentary, this morning.†
Chpt 1.12 *
I came forty mile by Parliamentary this morning, and I'm going back the same forty mile this afternoon.†
Chpt 1.12
Her capacity of definition might be easily stated at a very low figure, her mathematical knowledge at nothing; yet he was not sure that if he had been required, for example, to tick her off into columns in a parliamentary return, he would have quite known how to divide her.†
Chpt 1.14
For the same reason I don't make all my journey in one day, but divide it into two days, and get a bed to-night at the Travellers' Coffee House down by the railroad (a nice clean house), and go back Parliamentary, at six in the morning.†
Chpt 2.6
Her father was usually sifting and sifting at his parliamentary cinder-heap in London (without being observed to turn up many precious articles among the rubbish), and was still hard at it in the national dustyard.†
Chpt 2.9
He then returned with promptitude to the national cinder-heap, and resumed his sifting for the odds and ends he wanted, and his throwing of the dust about into the eyes of other people who wanted other odds and ends — in fact resumed his parliamentary duties.†
Chpt 2.11

Definitions:

(1) (parliamentary)
relating to a form of democracy where the chief executive is selected by and answerable to and the legislature

In the United States, the chief executive (president) is elected separately from the legislative branch (congress). In a parliamentary system, the chief executive (prime minister) is selected by the majority party of the legislative branch (parliament). Many democracies, such as France, have a hybrid parliamentary/presidential system in which an elected president shares power with a prime minister.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)