cloture

Other forms of cloture

plural

clotures·

past tense

clotured·

present participle

cloturing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cloture

What does cloture mean?

cloture means "a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cloture?

cloture has 2 syllables: clo-ture. The stress falls on "clo". In IPA it is /ˈkloʊtʃɚ/.

What is another word for cloture?

Close synonyms include closure, gag rule, gag law, closure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cloture a common word?

cloture is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.