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extraparliamentary

extraparliamentary adjective: outside of a parliament or legislature.

Adjective

extraparliamentary (not comparable)

  1. Outside of a parliament or legislature.
    • Having lost at the polls they were bent on attempting to capture power: through extraparliamentary means.1975 July 28, T.N. Kaul, “In Which Reasons for the State of Emergency Are Explained and Defended”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2023
    • Unlike Jackson, he has not made himself part of a political movement or exercised extraparliamentary leadership, except in his early newspapering days.1988 February 5, David Moberg, “Jackson and Simon in Iowa”, in Chicago Reader

Origin of extraparliamentary

From extra- + parliamentary.

Questions about extraparliamentary

What does extraparliamentary mean?
Extraparliamentary means outside of a parliament or legislature.
What part of speech is extraparliamentary?
Extraparliamentary is an adjective.

Words near extraparliamentary in the dictionary

  1. extraparathyroidal
  2. extraparenchymal
  3. extraparenchymally
  4. extraparental
  5. extraparietal
  6. extraparliamentary
  7. extraparochial
  8. extraparochially
  9. extrapate
  10. extrapatriarchal
  11. extrapedicular

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