clôture

A form of cloture — In legislative assemblies that permit unlimited debate (that is, a filibuster): a motion, procedure or rule by which debate is ended so that a vote may be taken on the matter. For example, in the United States Senate, a three-fifths majority vote of the body is required to invoke cloture and terminate debate.

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Meanings

nounclôture (plural clôtures)

plural clôtures

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of cloture.

    A House of Commons manifestly demoralized, unable to dispatch the business, docked of freedom of debate by the clôture, in bondage at once to the caucus and to Irish disaffection, is proclaimed the sole organ of the national will, the supreme and only power of the State.

    1894, Goldwin Smith quoted in The Review of Reviews; Volume IX, page #600
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