contempt of congress

1. 1.

   deliberate obstruction of the operation of the federal legislative branch

   Broadercontempt

   law

Questions about contempt of congress

What does contempt of congress mean?

contempt of congress means "deliberate obstruction of the operation of the federal legislative branch".

Is contempt of congress a common word?

contempt of congress 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.