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Definition of Party whip
1. Noun. A legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline.
Definition of Party whip
1. Noun. (politics) Within a legislative body, a member appointed by a political party and given the authority to ensure that all members of that party participate in voting and vote strictly as directed by the party in all votes where adherence to a party line is required. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Party Whip
Literary usage of Party whip
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by William H. Steele, Charles Elliott Fitch (1900)
"districts of this State is to be put through this Convention under party whip
and spur, if partisan measures are to be put through here as partisan measures ..."
2. Convention to Revise the Constitution, June 5, 1918, January 13, 1920 by New Hampshire Constitutional Convention (1918)
"... and legislatures to sometimes snap his party's whip—merely as a ministerial act.
There is no political guile in the gentleman from Ward 4, not at all. ..."
3. Municipal and Private Operation of Public Utilities: Report to the National by National Civic Federation Commission on Public Ownership and Operation (1907)
"But the " party whip," the commissioned leader of the opposition, does not wait
for a warrant to justify his assaults on the administrative party. ..."
4. Thunderbolts: Comprising Most Earnest Reasonings, Delightful Narratives by Sam Porter Jones (1895)
"... make me march up under the pop and crack of the party whip? I am not going to
do it. I don't have to do it. I will vote for whom I please. ..."
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