party whip

1. 1.

   a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline

   Synonymswhip

   Broaderlegislator

Questions about party whip

What does party whip mean?

party whip means "a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline".

What is another word for party whip?

Close synonyms include whip. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is party whip a common word?

party whip is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.