commons
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
commons/ˈkɒmənz/
▶plural noun
- 1 (the Commons) short for House of Commons.
■ historical the common people regarded as a part of a political system.
- 2 [treated as sing.] land or resources belonging to or affecting the whole of a community.
- 3 US a dining hall in a school or college.
- 4 archaic provisions shared in common; rations.
– phrases
short commons archaic insufficient allocation of food.
short commons archaic insufficient allocation of food.
'commons' also found in these Oxford entries:
another
- backbencher
- committee
- count
- dispatch box
- estate
- Father of the House
- front bench
- HC
- house
- House of Commons
- Houses of Parliament
- left wing
- lower house
- mace
- make
- name
- other
- parliament
- question time
- speaker
- stranger
- Treasury bench
