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Debate-limiting method
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cloture
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body [syn: closure , gag rule , gag law ] v. terminate debate by calling for a vote; "debate was closured"; "cloture the discussion" [syn: closure ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1871, the French word for "closure, the action of closing," applied to debates in the French Assembly ("action of closing (debate) by will of a majority"), then to the House of Commons and U.S. Congress, from French clôture , from Old French closture (see ...
Usage examples of cloture.
Even the substitution of magnetic clotures for metal clasps had not proven successful.