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Noun cloture has 1 sense
  1. closure, cloture, gag rule, gag law - a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
    --1 is a kind of order, rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure
    --1 has particulars: closure by compartment, guillotine
    Derived form: verb cloture1
,Verb cloture has 1 sense
  1. closure, cloture - terminate debate by calling for a vote; "debate was closured"; "cloture the discussion"
    --1 is one way to end, terminate
    Derived form: noun cloture1
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