Meaning & use
Cameral
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Relating to a legislative or judicial chamber, or to a treasury or exchequer.
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Scholars of cameral science studied how eighteenth-century treasuries managed state finances.
The reform reorganized the assembly's cameral structure into two houses.
A note on using this word
It appears mainly as a suffix in 'unicameral' and 'bicameral,' describing legislatures with one or two chambers; on its own it is rare and largely historical.
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