cloture

英['kləʊtjʊə] 美['klotʃɚ]

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cloture (n.): 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 closure). It was especially used in English by those opposed to the tactic.
In foreign countries the Clôture has been used notoriously to barricade up a majority against the "pestilent" criticism of a minority, and in this country every "whip" and force is employed by the majority to re-assert its continued supremacy and to keep its ranks intact whenever attacked. How this one-sided struggle to maintain solidarity can be construed into "good for all" is inexplicable in the sense uttered. ["The clôture and the Recent Debate, a Letter to Sir J. Lubbock," London, 1882]

1. Yesterday, we saw the cloture of the Medicare Modernization Act.: 昨天，我们看到医疗现代化法案的讨论终结。

2. To apply cloture to ( a parliamentary debate ).: 结束辩论而付诸表决采用终结辩论以表决的方法结束 ( 国会辩论 )