- the bicameral legislature in 28 states of the US
- the lower chamber of the bicameral state legislatures in several Commonwealth countries, such as Australia
- the unicameral legislature in most Canadian provinces
- any assembly with legislative powers
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Leg′islative Assem′bly, [Fr. Hist.]
- World Historythe legislature of France 1791–92.
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legislative assembly n (often capitals)
'Legislative Assembly' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Assembly
- centre
- congress
- convocation
- council
- deputy
- diet
- duma
- first reading
- House of Assembly
- hung
- Iceland
- legislative
- MLA
- moderator
- press gallery
- private member
- reading
- reconsider
- Reichstag
- rise
- second chamber
- second reading
- steering committee
- third reading
- Volksraad
- assemblyman
- assemblyperson
- assemblywoman
- assize
- attribution
- boule
- center
- concurrent resolution
- deliberative
- docket
- European Parliament
- filibuster
- joint resolution
- left
- plenum
- right
- thing
- town meeting
- unicameral
- senate
- speaker