English-Thai Dictionary

filibuster

N การขัดขวาง การผ่าน ญัตติ หรือ มติ ใน สภา  delaying tactic hindrance interference kan-kad-kwang-kan-pan-yad-ti-rue-ma-ti-nai-sa-pa

 

filibuster

VI พยายาม หยุดยั้ง การผ่าน ญัตติ หรือ มติ ใน สภา  pa-ya-yam-yud-yang-kan-pan-yad-ti-rue-ma-ti-nai-sa-pa

 

filibuster

VT พยายาม หยุดยั้ง การผ่าน ญัตติ หรือ มติ ใน สภา  pa-ya-yam-yud-yang-kan-pan-yad-ti-rue-ma-ti-nai-sa-pa

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FILIBUSTER

Fil "i *bus `ter, n. Etym: [Sp. flibuster, flibustero, corrupted fr. E.freebooter. See Freebooter. ]

 

Defn: A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851,and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.

 

FILIBUSTER

Fil "i *bus *ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fillibustered; p. pr. & vb. n.Filibustering.]

 

1. To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter. Bartlett.

 

2. To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. [political cant or slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

 

FILIBUSTERISM

FILIBUSTERISM Fil "i *bus `ter *ism, n.

 

Defn: The characteristics or practices of a filibuster. Bartlett.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

filibuster

fil i bus ter |ˈfiləˌbəstər ˈfɪləˌbəstər | ▶noun 1 an action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures: it was defeated by a Senate filibuster in June. 2 historical a person engaging in unauthorized warfare against a foreign country. ▶verb [ no obj. ] (often as noun filibustering ) act in an obstructive manner in a legislature, esp. by speaking at inordinate length: several measures were killed by Republican filibustering. • [ with obj. ] obstruct (a measure ) in such a way. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French flibustier, first applied to pirates who pillaged the Spanish colonies in the West Indies, ultimately from Dutch vrijbuiter; see freebooter. In the mid 19th cent. (via Spanish filibustero ), the term denoted American adventurers who incited revolution in several Latin American states, whence sense 2 of the noun. The verb was used to describe tactics intended to sabotage congressional proceedings, whence sense 1 of the noun .

 

Oxford Dictionary

filibuster

filibuster |ˈfɪlɪbʌstə | ▶noun 1 an action such as prolonged speaking which obstructs progress in a legislative assembly in a way that does not technically contravene the required procedures. 2 historical a person engaging in unauthorized warfare against a foreign state. ▶verb [ no obj. ] (often as noun filibustering ) act in an obstructive manner in a legislative assembly, especially by speaking at inordinate length: several measures were killed by Republican filibustering. • [ with obj. ] obstruct (proposed legislation ) with a filibuster. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French flibustier, first applied to pirates who pillaged the Spanish colonies in the West Indies. In the mid 19th cent. (via Spanish filibustero ), the term denoted American adventurers who incited revolution in several Latin American states, whence sense 2 of the noun. The verb was used to describe tactics intended to sabotage US congressional proceedings, whence sense 1 of the noun .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

filibuster

filibuster noun many hours in committee are characterized by filibuster: stonewalling, delaying tactics, procrastination, obstruction, temporizing. ▶verb the opposition are filibustering: waste time, stall, play for time, stonewall, sandbag, procrastinate, buy time, employ delaying tactics.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

filibuster

filibuster noun many hours in committee characterized by filibuster and slow progress: delaying tactics, stonewalling, procrastination, obstruction, delaying, blocking, hold-up; informal speechifying, speechification. ▶verb it is an abuse of the house for the opposition to filibuster: waste time, stall, play for time, stonewall, procrastinate, buy time, employ delaying tactics; obstruct, delay, block; speak /talk at length, speak /talk on and on; informal speechify.

 

Duden Dictionary

Filibuster

Fi li bus ter Substantiv, maskulin , der Flibustier |Filib u ster |der Filibuster; Genitiv: des Filibusters, Plural: die Filibuster französisch flibustier, englisch filibuster, wohl < älter englisch flibutor, freebooter < niederländisch vrijbuiter = Freibeuter westindischer Seeräuber in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts

 

Filibuster

Fi li bus ter Substantiv, maskulin , der |filiˈbastɐ |der Filibuster; Genitiv: des Filibuster [s ], Plural: die Filibuster englisch filibuster (Flibustier ), eigentlich = jemand, der in seinen Aktionen einem Freibeuter oder Partisan vergleichbar ist im amerikanischen Senat von Minderheiten geübte Praktik, durch Marathonreden Parlamentsbeschlüsse zu verzögern oder zu verhindern

 

French Dictionary

filibuster

filibuster FORME FAUTIVE Anglicisme pour obstruction (systématique ) d ’un débat parlementaire.

 

Spanish Dictionary

filibusterismo

filibusterismo nombre masculino 1 Táctica que se emplea en las asambleas políticas u otros cuerpos deliberantes para retardar o impedir los acuerdos aprovechando cualquier oportunidad que ofrezca el procedimiento necesario para ello .SINÓNIMO obstruccionismo .2 Partido que apoyaba la independencia de Cuba cuando era colonia española .

 

filibustero

filibustero nombre masculino Pirata que durante el siglo xvii actuaba en el mar de las Antillas y atacaba a los barcos que comerciaban con las colonias españolas de América .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

filibuster

fil i bus ter /fɪ́lɪbʌ̀stə r /名詞 U C 1 ｟主に米 ｠(長い演説などによる )議事妨害 (者 ).2 (外国に侵入する )不法戦士, 不法潜入 [入国 ]者 .動詞 自動詞 1 議事を遅らせる ; 議事妨害する .2 (外国に )不法に侵入する .他動詞 〈議案 〉の通過を妨害する .