cloture

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

cloture
    n 1: a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
         [syn: {closure}, {cloture}, {gag rule}, {gag law}]
    v 1: terminate debate by calling for a vote; "debate was
         closured"; "cloture the discussion" [syn: {closure},
         {cloture}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cloture \Cl[^o]`ture"\, n. [F.] (Parliamentary Practice)
   See {Closure}, 5.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

20 Moby Thesaurus words for "cloture":
      cloture by compartment, committee consideration, debate,
      deliberation, division, filibuster, filibustering, filing,
      first reading, guillotine, introduction, kangaroo cloture,
      logrolling, roll call, second reading, steamroller methods,
      tabling, talkathon, third reading, vote

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