| 单词 | senatorial courtesy |
| 释义 | senatorial courtesy in American English a custom of the U.S. Senate whereby that body refuses to ratify a presidential nomination to an official position, as in a state, if the senators from that state or from the nominee's state do not approve senatorial courtesy in American Englishnoun the practice in the U.S. Senate of confirming only those presidential appointees approved by both senators from the state of theappointee, or by the senior senator of the president's party Word origin [1880–85, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Chief of Staff, highball, interface, jackpot, quotation mark |
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