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☆ joint resolution

a resolution passed by both houses of a bicameral legislature: it has the force of a law if signed by the chief executive or passed over his veto

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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