Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The official report of the proceedings and debates of a legislature in the Commonwealth of Nations, especially of the British or Canadian parliament.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The official report of the proceedings and debates of the British parliament.
- noun A merchant of one of the Hanse towns.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d
hanse . - noun An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
official report ofdiscussions in the British and someCommonwealth parliaments . - noun historical A
merchant of one of theHanse towns .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the official published verbatim report of the proceedings of a parliamentary body; originally of the British Parliament
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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You can find a transcript of the debate in Hansard, which is equally coy:
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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Can't Clegg insist that it is included in Hansard?
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In fact what he says is just as is recorded in Hansard:
Archive 2008-03-01 Stephen Tall 2008
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I have checked in Hansard and the question and answer ran as follows:
Archive 2008-02-01 Not a sheep 2008
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In fact what he says is just as is recorded in Hansard:
Ed Balls-up: crisis, what crisis? Stephen Tall 2008
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For lazy BBC people you can see this in Hansard (4 Jun 2008: Column 765).
Archive 2008-07-01 Not a sheep 2008
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You can find the whole debate in Hansard for 2 April 2008.
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That is why I am so shocked by this appearance in Hansard from yesterday's debate.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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You can find the whole debate in Hansard for 2 April 2008.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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To read the old bruiser's contribution in Hansard, click here.
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