Tra từ senate - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

sen‧ate , Senate /ˈsenət, ˈsenɪt/ noun
[date : 1100-1200; Language : Old French; Origin : senat, from Latin senatus, from senex 'old man']
1.
a) the Senate the smaller and more important of the two parts of the government with the power to make laws, in countries such as the US, Australia, and France:
　 ▪ The Senate approved the bill.
b) [COUNTABLE]
a similar part of the government in many US states:
　 ▪ the California state senate

2. the Senate
the highest level of government in ancient Rome

3. [COUNTABLE]
the governing council at some universities

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a presidential/Senate/mayoral race
▪ He put $12 million of his own money into a Senate race.
a Senate seat
government/Senate approval
▪ It takes an average of twelve years for a successful drug to go from initial research to final government approval.
the presidential/Senate etc nomination (=a nomination for a particular job or position)
▪ He was unsuccessful in his campaign for the presidential nomination in 2008.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
state
▪ Brodsky insisted that the state senate could vote on the measure in special session if it wished.
▪ The Florida Legislature: Both the state senate and house of representatives have Republican majorities.
▪ A few days later, Rabbi Loewy returned to Baton Rouge to testify before the state senate.
▪ Three years as a legislative liaison, six years in the state senate, four tedious years as lieutenant governor.
▪ My old friend Roberta Fox won his seat in the state senate.
▪ John Wade spent six years in the state senate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brodsky insisted that the state senate could vote on the measure in special session if it wished.
▪ Each delegate prepares a bill or a resolution for the mock senate to vote on.
▪ My old friend Roberta Fox won his seat in the state senate.
▪ The senate is the opposition's counterweight to the new president.
▪ The first would be to create an appointed senate, which would allow Khmer Rouge leaders to be given an official role.
▪ The Florida Legislature: Both the state senate and house of representatives have Republican majorities.
▪ Three years as a legislative liaison, six years in the state senate, four tedious years as lieutenant governor.
▪ Uslar stood for the senate in 1959 on the leftwing Democratic Republican Union ticket.