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took the Chiltern Hundreds

took the Chiltern Hundreds is the simple past 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 took the Chiltern Hundreds

What is took the Chiltern Hundreds the simple past of?
Took the Chiltern Hundreds is the simple past of take the Chiltern Hundreds.

Words near took the Chiltern Hundreds in the dictionary

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

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