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congressional

UK/kəŋˈɡɹɛ.ʃə.nəl/US/kəŋˈɡɹɛ.ʃə.nəl/
adjectiveC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,865 of 15,258mostly written

Congressional means to do with a national law-making assembly. A congressional hearing, congressional approval, congressional elections.

In practice it means the American Congress in almost every use, and a congressional hearing is the standard instrument for questioning officials in public. The word appears in Indian and other political systems too, where it means something different.

Definitions of congressional

  1. 1adjectivecongressionalTo do with a national law-making assembly.C1

    “The company's boss was called to answer questions at a congressional hearing.”

congressional is a quality.

Where it comes from

From congression + -al.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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congressional in the wild

  • The 2022 elections were the first to be based on the congressional districts which were defined based on the 2020 United States census.

    List of United States congressional districts

  • Each congressional district is expected to be equal in population to all other congressional districts in a state.

    List of United States congressional districts

  • The congressional practice of issuing gold medals to occasionally honor recipients began with members of the military during the American Revolution.

    Congressional Gold Medal

  • Florida's 6th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida.

    Florida's 6th congressional district

  • Florida is divided into 28 congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives.

    Florida's congressional districts

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.