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upper house

in a legislature having two branches, that branch which is usually smaller and less representative, as the Senate of the U.S. Congress

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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