filibuster

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(especially AmE) a long speech made in a parliament in order to delay a vote filibuster verb [V]

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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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filibusterEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary filibusterEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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