take the Chiltern Hundreds (English, verb)
expansion: take the Chiltern Hundreds (third-person singular simple present takes the Chiltern Hundreds, present participle taking the Chiltern Hundreds, simple past took the Chiltern Hundreds, past participle taken the Chiltern Hundreds)
Senses:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To vacate one's seat in the House of Commons (since resignation is not permitted), under the legal fiction of being appointed to an "office of profit under the Crown": the ancient office of Crown Steward for the Chiltern Hundreds, in modern times a mere sinecure.
tags: UK
Forms:
form: takes the Chiltern Hundreds
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: taking the Chiltern Hundreds
tags: participle
present
form: took the Chiltern Hundreds
tags: past
form: taken the Chiltern Hundreds
tags: participle
past