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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[F.]

(Parliamentary Practice)

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, 5.

See also: clôture and clôturé

cloture ‎(plural clotures)

(law) In legislative assemblies that permit unlimited debate (filibuster); a motion, procedure or rule, by which debate is ended so that a vote may be taken on the matter. For example, in the United States Senate, a three-fifths majority vote of the body is required to invoke cloture and terminate debate.