Hansard UK /ˈhænsəd/US /ˈhænsɚd/ noun2 •(UK, Commonwealth) The official report of debates and other proceedings in the British and some Commonwealth parliaments.He, for example, who would essay to take account of Mr. [William Ewart] Gladstone, must read much else besides Hansard; he must brush up his Homer, and set himself to acquire some theology. — 1885 •[before a noun] (historical) A member of a Hanse (“merchant guild”), or a resident of a Hanse town.The earlier commercial fisheries of the northern Atlantic waters were mainly of herring and mackerel, taken by nets in the North and Norwegian seas and marketed abroad by Hansard merchants. — 1975 formsHansards