Look up: filibuster

1. filibuster
   [n] - a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes 2. [n] - a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches 3. [v] - obstruct deliberately by delaying
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2. filibuster
   U.S. the use of irregular or obstructive tactics by a member of a minority in a legislative assembly to prevent the adoption of a measure Category: Politics • parliamentary device used in the US Senate by which a minority of Senators seek to frustrate the will of the majority by literall...
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3. Filibuster
   Fil'i·bus`ter noun [ Spanish flibuster , flibustero , corrupted from English freebooter . See Freebooter .] A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers ...
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4. Filibuster
   Fil'i·bus·ter intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fillibustered ; present participle & verbal noun Filibustering .] 1. To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter. ...
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5. filibuster
   noun a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
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6. filibuster
   filibusterer noun a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes
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7. filibuster
   verb obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation
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8. Filibuster
   • (v. i.) To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter. • (n.) A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lope...
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9. filibuster
   in legislative practice, the parliamentary tactic used in the United States Senate by a minority of the senators—sometimes even a single senator—to ... [2 related articles]
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10. Filibuster
    [military] A filibuster, or freebooter, is someone who engages in an unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country to foment or support a revolution. The term is usually used to describe United States citizens who attempted to foment insurrections in Latin America in the mid-19th c...
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11. Filibuster
    A filibuster is a type of parliamentary procedure. Specifically, it is the right of an individual to extend debate, allowing a lone member to delay or entirely prevent a vote on a given proposal. It is commonly referred to as talking out a bill, and characterized as a form of obstruction in a legis...
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12. filibuster
    filibuster, term used to designate obstructionist tactics in legislative assemblies. It has particular reference to the U.S. Senate, where the tradition of unlimited debate is very strong. It was not until 1917 that the Senate provided for cloture (i.e., the ending of the debate) by a vote of two th...
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