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taking the Chiltern Hundreds

taking the Chiltern Hundreds is the present participle and gerund of take the Chiltern Hundreds.

Meaning of take the Chiltern Hundreds

Verb

take the Chiltern Hundreds (third-person singular simple present takes the Chiltern Hundreds, present participle taking the Chiltern Hundreds, simple past took the Chiltern Hundreds, past participle taken the Chiltern Hundreds)

  1. (UK) To vacate one's seat in the House of Commons (since resignation is not permitted), under the legal fiction of being appointed to an "office of profit under the Crown": the ancient office of Crown Steward for the Chiltern Hundreds, in modern times a mere sinecure.

Questions about taking the Chiltern Hundreds

What is taking the Chiltern Hundreds the present participle and gerund of?
Taking the Chiltern Hundreds is the present participle and gerund of take the Chiltern Hundreds.

Words near taking the Chiltern Hundreds in the dictionary

  1. taking the Browns to the Super Bowl
  2. taking the bull by the horns
  3. taking the cake
  4. taking the chair
  5. taking the chill off
  6. taking the Chiltern Hundreds
  7. taking the count
  8. taking the coward's way out
  9. taking the cure
  10. taking the easy way out
  11. taking the edge off

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