| 单词 | sitting time | 
| 释义 | > as lemmassitting time  C3.   attributive, with the sense ‘designating a period of time during which a judicial, legislative, or deliberative body is in session’, as  sitting session,  sitting time,  sitting week, etc. Now chiefly Australian and New Zealand.rare before 19th cent. ΚΠ 1598    J. Stow Suruay of London 392  				A clocke..striketh euery houre on a great bell, to be heard into the Hall, in sitting time of the courts. 1830    Westm. Rev. Oct. 431  				How to minimize the quantity of judicial sitting time in a year, without lessening the quantity and productiveness of the fee-gathering time? 1922    Farmer & Settler 		(Sydney)	 11 Aug. 2/3  				The report of Tuesday's proceedings in Parliament for each sitting week could well read: ‘Nothing accomplished’. 1997    J. Uhr in  G. Galligan et al.  New Devel. Austral. Politics iv. 72  				The prime minister [was] available for questioning on only two days of each sitting week. 2015    N.Z. Newswire 1 Dec.  				Members of parliament begin their last sitting session on Tuesday with the government running out of time to deal with a backlog of legislation. < as lemmas  | 
	
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