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“clotures”
1. A method of quickly closing debate and calling for an immediate vote on the matter at hand in U.S. parliamentary procedures: "In the United States Senate, to achieve cloture requires a supermajority of three-fifths thus ending debate and causing an immediate vote on the matter being discussed."
"Apparently, the cloture rule is the only conventional way to stop an attempt to delay a Senate action."
2. Etymology: the French word for "the action of closing", applied to debates in the French Assembly, then to the House of Commons, and then the U.S. Congress; from French clĂ´ture, from Old French closture, "barrier, division; enclosure, hedge, fence, wall"; from Latin clausura, "lock, fortress, a closing", from claudere, "to close".
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clud-, claud-, claus-, clos-, -clude, -clois, -cluding, -cluded, -clus, -clusion, -clusive
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