senate
/ˈsen·ət/ n [U] politics & governmentDefinition
› the group of politicians who have the most power to make laws in a government: The US Senate has 100 members. He served in the state senate. › In Canada, members of the Senate give advice about laws but do not make laws.
(Definition of senate n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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