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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

ques′tion time`(n.)

  1. a time set aside in a session during which members of a parliament may question a minister or ministers regarding state affairs. Also called ques′tion pe`riod.

    Category: British, Canada/Canadian

Origin of question time:

1850–55

Princeton's WordNet

  1. question time(noun)

    a period during a parliamentary session when members of British Parliament may ask questions of the ministers

Wiktionary

  1. Question Time(ProperNoun)

    a time during a sitting of parliament wherein Members of Parliament ask questions of Government Ministers (including the Prime Minister) which they are obliged to answer.


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