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Definition filibuster
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish filibustero (pirate), from French flibustier, from Dutch vrijbuiter (freebooter), from vrij (free) + buit (booty) + -er (agent). The word has the same construction as, and is cognate to, English freebooter.
Noun
filibuster (plural filibusters)
- A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; specifically, a mercenary who travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the Spanish West Indies in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force.
- (US politics) A tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body, particularly the United States Senate.
- (US politics) A member of a legislative body causing such an obstruction; a filibusterer.
Verb
filibuster (third-person singular simple present filibusters, present participle filibustering, simple past and past participle filibustered)
- To take part in a private military action in a foreign country.
- (US, politics) To use obstructionist tactics in a legislative body.
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