"cross the floor" meaning in All languages combined

See cross the floor on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: crosses the floor [present, singular, third-person], crossing the floor [participle, present], crossed the floor [participle, past], crossed the floor [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} cross the floor (third-person singular simple present crosses the floor, present participle crossing the floor, simple past and past participle crossed the floor)
  1. (UK politics, of a member of a parliament) To vote against one’s own political party in parliament. Tags: UK Categories (topical): UK politics
    Sense id: en-cross_the_floor-en-verb-9QNniVf8 Categories (other): English predicates Disambiguation of English predicates: 50 50 Topics: government, politics
  2. (UK politics, informal, of a member of a parliament) To resign from one’s political party and join another party, resulting in moving from one’s currently assigned desk or seat in the legislative chamber to a new desk or seat physically located with the other members of one’s new party. Tags: UK, informal Categories (topical): UK politics
    Sense id: en-cross_the_floor-en-verb-pWmJba3C Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English predicates, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 79 Disambiguation of English predicates: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 20 80 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 85 Topics: government, politics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cross the aisle

Inflected forms

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