privilege of the floor

1. 1.

   the right to be admitted onto the floor of a legislative assembly while it is in session

   Broaderprerogative

Questions about privilege of the floor

What does privilege of the floor mean?

privilege of the floor means "the right to be admitted onto the floor of a legislative assembly while it is in session".

Is privilege of the floor a common word?

privilege of the floor 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.