1) Capitol Hill ploy 2) Capitol Hill talkathon 3) Delayer 4) Dilatory tactic 5) Filibusterer 6) Legislative stalling tactic 7) Legislative tactic 8) Legislator
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1) Delay 2) Filibusterer 3) Orate 4) Stall 5) Stymie
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A Spanish word for pirate. Trust them to have a fancy word for it.
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A filibuster is a parliamentary procedure where debate is extended, allowing one or more members to delay or entirely prevent a vote on a given proposal. It is sometimes referred to as talking out a bill, and characterised as a form of obstruction in a legislature or other decision-making body. The English term `filibuster` is derived from the S.....
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[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 century, but is also applicable in the modern day. Fi...
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• (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 Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of ...
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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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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 infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introdu...
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Fil'i·bus·ter intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Fillibustered ;
present participle & verbal noun Filibustering .]
1. To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.
Bartlett. 2. To delay legislatio...
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A procedural maneuver used to obstruct a bill in the U.S. Senate. A filibuster occurs when a senator who is engaged in debate refuses to yield the floor, thus preventing a roll call vote from taking place.
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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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the use of long speeches or other tactics in Parliament to delay deliberately a vote or decision
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noun a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
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· the use of irregular or obstructive tactics by a member of a legislative assembly to prevent the adoption of a measure generally favored or to force a decision against the will of the majority. · an exceptionally long speech, as one lasting for a day or days, or a series of such speeches to accomplish this purpose. · a member of...
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a tactic for delaying legislation by making long speeches
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[SAT terms] a tactic for delaying legislation by making long speeches
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[Difficult words] a tactic for delaying legislation by making long speeches
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[Obscure words] a tactic for delaying legislation by making long speeches
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