Words Like FILIBUSTER
We have put together a list of words that are similar to FILIBUSTER.
5 Alternative Words Similar to filibuster
10 definitions of filibuster
1
A freebooter: in history, a name distinctively applied to the West Indian bucaneers or pirates of the seventeenth century. See bucaneer.
2
Hence One of a band of men organized, in disregard of international law, for the purpose of invading and revolutionizing a foreign state.
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In a legislative or other deliberative body, a member in the minority who resorts to irregular or obstructive tactics to prevent the adoption of a measure or procedure which is favored by the majority. Also filibusterer.
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To act as a freebooter or bucaneer.
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To obstruct legislation by undue use of the technicalities of parliamentary law or privileges, as when the minority in a legislative assembly, in order to prevent the passage of some measure obnoxious to them, endeavor to consume time or tire out their opponents by useless motions, speeches, objections, etc.
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A freebooter, or mercenary soldier.
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A delaying tactic, especially the use of long, often irrelevant speeches given in order to delay progress or the making of a decision, especially on the floor of the US Senate.
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A member of a legislative body causing such obstruction.
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To take part in a private military action in a foreign country.
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To use obstructionist tactics in a legislative body.