"first reading" meaning in All languages combined

See first reading on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: first readings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} first reading (plural first readings)
  1. In the UK and various other countries, the initial presentation or announcement of a bill (proposed legislation) to a parliament or legislature, or chamber thereof. In the UK, this takes place without debate and is followed by the publication of the bill for members to examine prior to the second reading. Related terms: second reading, third reading
    Sense id: en-first_reading-en-noun-cTMiLw-c Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for first reading meaning in All languages combined (1.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "first readings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "first reading (plural first readings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In the UK and various other countries, the initial presentation or announcement of a bill (proposed legislation) to a parliament or legislature, or chamber thereof. In the UK, this takes place without debate and is followed by the publication of the bill for members to examine prior to the second reading."
      ],
      "id": "en-first_reading-en-noun-cTMiLw-c",
      "links": [
        [
          "bill",
          "bill"
        ],
        [
          "parliament",
          "parliament"
        ],
        [
          "legislature",
          "legislature"
        ],
        [
          "second reading",
          "second reading"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "second reading"
        },
        {
          "word": "third reading"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "first reading"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "first readings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "first reading (plural first readings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "second reading"
    },
    {
      "word": "third reading"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In the UK and various other countries, the initial presentation or announcement of a bill (proposed legislation) to a parliament or legislature, or chamber thereof. In the UK, this takes place without debate and is followed by the publication of the bill for members to examine prior to the second reading."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bill",
          "bill"
        ],
        [
          "parliament",
          "parliament"
        ],
        [
          "legislature",
          "legislature"
        ],
        [
          "second reading",
          "second reading"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "first reading"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.