Hansard Definition

hănsərd
noun
The official record of proceedings in the British Parliament.
Webster's New World

(historical) A merchant of one of the Hanse towns.

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Other Word Forms of Hansard

Noun

Singular:
Hansard
Plural:
hansards

Origin of Hansard

  • About 1859. After London printer Luke Hansard (1752–1828), whose company printed and later published the British debates of parliament. The printed debates were titled Hansard from 1829.

    From Wiktionary

  • After Luke Hansard (1752–1828), British printer

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Hansard Sentence Examples

  • One man's great oration can be a Hansard reporter's nightmare!

  • Click here to read the Hansard transcript of the Commons debate.

  • Even when the convention was being negotiated doubts arose as to its meaning, and legal authorities were divided as to its effect (see speech of Lord Cairns, Hansard, 269, p. 261; Lord Selborne, 260, p. 309; answer of attorney-general 260, 1534).

  • Parliamentary diarists like DEwes, Burton and Walter Yonge, only a fragment of whose shorthand notes in the British Museum has been published (Camden Society), elucidate the bare official statements; and from 1660 the series of parliamentary debates is fairly complete, though not so full or authoritative as it becomes with Hansard in the 19th century.

  • Mr Dennys relied on certain passages in Hansard in his skeleton argument.

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Words Starting With

HHAHAN

Words Ending With

DRDARD

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