filibuster

3 definitions • 2 examples

to make a long speech in order to delay or prevent a new law being made:

Conceivably, supporters of the law could filibuster to prevent it from being revised.

a long speech that someone makes in order to delay or prevent a new law being made:

He started a filibuster to stop the drafting of young men into military service.

(in a legislature) a way of preventing a law from being passed by using the rules or making long speeches to delay voting on it