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filibuster 音標拼音: [f'ɪləb ,ʌstɚ] n. 掠奪兵,暴兵,海盜
vi. 掠奪
vt. 阻礙議案通過 掠奪兵,暴兵,海盜掠奪阻礙議案通過 filibuster n 1: a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he ( or she) opposes [ synonym: { filibuster}, { filibusterer}] 2: ( law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches v 1: obstruct deliberately by delayingFilibuster \ Fil" i* bus` ter\, n. [ Sp. flibuster, flibustero, corrupted fr. E. 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 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Filibuster \ Fil" i* bus* ter\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Fillibustered}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Filibustering}.] 1. To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter. -- Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. [ political cant or slang, U. S.] -- Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster] 111 Moby Thesaurus words for " filibuster": address, after- dinner speech, allocution, be dilatory, chalk talk, cloture, committee consideration, constitute, debate, declamation, decree, deliberation, diatribe, division, enact, enact laws, eulogy, exhortation, filibusterer, filibustering, filing, first reading, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, frustrater, funeral oration, gain time, get the floor, hang, hang back, hang fire, harangue, have the floor, hesitate, hinderer, hold off, hortatory address, impeder, inaugural, inaugural address, introduction, invective, jeremiad, kill, legislate, lobby through, logroll, logrolling, make time, marplot, negativist, obstructer, obstructionist, oration, ordain, outlast, outspeak, outtalk, pass, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pigeonhole, pitch, play for time, pocket, prepared speech, prepared text, procrastinate, public speech, put in force, put through, railroad through, reading, recital, recitation, roll call, roll logs, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, second reading, set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, stall, stall for time, stall off, steamroller methods, stooge around, table, tabling, take the floor, talk, talk against time, talk down, talkathon, temporize, third reading, thwarter, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, veto, vote, yield the floor
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