Filibuster

['fɪlɪbʌstə] or ['fɪlə'bʌstɚ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches.

(noun.) a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes.

(verb.) obstruct deliberately by delaying.

編輯:弗吉尼亚--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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 Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.

(v. i.) To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.

(v. i.) To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices.

編輯:利拉

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [Modern.] Pirate, freebooter, buccaneer, sea-robber, sea-rover, lawless adventurer.

錄入:李莉斯

解釋/意思:

n. a lawless military or piratical adventurer as in the West Indies: a buccaneer.—v.i. to obstruct legislation wantonly by endless speeches motions &c.—n. Fil′ibusterism the character or actions of a filibuster.

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