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parliamentary agent
noun
- (in Britain) a person who is employed to manage the parliamentary business of a private group
Example Sentences
Mr. Roche, after this, resided for some time in London as parliamentary agent.
It was this “passionate lover of liberty” who, when Dorislaus, the parliamentary agent, was assassinated by some Scotchmen in Holland, moved in the house, that “six royalists of the best quality” should be immediately executed!
Then was the harvest-time of scheming lawyers, parliamentary agents, engineers, surveyors, and traffic-takers, who were ready to take up any railway scheme however desperate, and to prove any amount of traffic even where none existed.
But his debts had been paid; and all was going on swimmingly, when one day he knocked down the parliamentary agent with a blow between the eyes, and then there was an end of that.
"Don't much care either way," said the parliamentary agent.
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