English Explanatory Dictionary

take the Chiltern Hundreds

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To vacate one's seat in the House of Commons (since resignation is not permitted), under the legal fiction of being appointed to an "office of profit under the Crown": the ancient office of Crown Steward for the Chiltern Hundreds, in modern times a mere sinecure.

Word forms

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