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n. The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

n. An instance of the use of this delaying tactic.

n. An adventurer who engages in a private military action in a foreign country.

verb-intransitive. To use obstructionist tactics in a legislative body.

verb-intransitive. To take part in a private military action in a foreign country.

v. To use a filibuster against (a legislative measure, for example).

n. A freebooter, or mercenary soldier.

n. 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.

n. A member of a legislative body causing such obstruction.

v. To take part in a private military action in a foreign country.

v. To use obstructionist tactics in a legislative body.

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.

verb-intransitive. To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.

verb-intransitive. To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices.

n. A freebooter: in history, a name distinctively applied to the West Indian bucaneers or pirates of the seventeenth century. See bucaneer.

n. Hence One of a band of men organized, in disregard of international law, for the purpose of invading and revolutionizing a foreign state.

n. 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.

To act as a freebooter or bucaneer.

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.

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

v. obstruct deliberately by delaying

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

"The term filibuster was applied at the time to American adventurers, mostly from Southern states, who wanted to overthrow the governments of Central American states - filibustering was seen as a tactic for pirating or hijacking debate for self-gain."

filibustered    filibustering    filibusterism    filibusters   

holdup    delay    stymy    block    hinder   

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freebooter    obstructionist    delay   

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freebooters    freebooter    housebreaker    pillager    despoiler