the Commons

plural noun

: the House of Commons (the part of the British or Canadian Parliament whose members are elected by voters)

Examples of the Commons in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

An area known as the Commons offered a communal kitchen, outdoor meeting space and a free store. —Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024

An unpleasant man named Oliver Cromwell, with the help of the army, seized power as Lord Protector and purged the Commons of dissenters. —Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 May 2023

Other measures Cleverly announced in the Commons include stopping overseas care workers from bringing family dependents, and ending the 20% salary discount firms can pay compared with the going rate for workers on the government’s shortage occupation list. —Kitty Donaldson, Fortune Europe, 5 Dec. 2023

The meeting will be held at 7.30 p.m. Sept. 28 in the Commons area of Avon Lake High School on Avon Belden Road. —cleveland, 4 Sep. 2023

July is a wildly busy month in the Commons with 12 events starting with Independence Day and ending with a Chalk Walk on July 29. —Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023

Thanks to the Arrangement, Britain’s kings and queens have dutifully intervened on the prime minister’s side in constitutional crises, most famously in 1911 when George V helped the Liberals break the House of Lords’ power to reject bills from the Commons. —Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 May 2023

Fox, whose grandmother was enslaved, is in the process of pushing a significant abolitionist bill through the Commons and doesn’t have time to torture himself with a flirtation that has no future. —Olivia Waite, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023

Fletcher’s question was met with laughter in the Commons. —WIRED, 20 Feb. 2023