Korean Meaning of filibuster

필리버스터

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Definitions and Meaning of filibuster in English

Wordnet

filibuster (n)

a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes

(law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches

Wordnet

filibuster (v)

obstruct deliberately by delaying

Webster

filibuster (n.)

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.

Webster

filibuster (v. i.)

To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.

To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices.

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필리버스터

a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes, (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislat

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가속하다,바람,다트,질주,혹,달려들다,번잡함,조깅,뛰다,섞다

filibeg => 치마, filiation => 가계, filiate => 지사, filially => 효심으로, filial love => 효도,