ADVICE AND CONSENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does advice and consent mean? 

• ADVICE AND CONSENT (noun)
  The noun ADVICE AND CONSENT has 1 sense:

1. a legal expression in the United States Constitution that allows the Senate to constrain the President's powers of appointment and treaty-making

  Familiarity information: ADVICE AND CONSENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVICE AND CONSENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A legal expression in the United States Constitution that allows the Senate to constrain the President's powers of appointment and treaty-making

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("advice and consent" is a kind of...):

expression; locution; saying (a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Holonyms ("advice and consent" is a part of...):

Constitution; Constitution of the United States; U.S. Constitution; United States Constitution; US Constitution (the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states)