Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cloture

1 sense of cloture

Sense 1
closure, cloture, gag rule, gag law -- (a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body)
       => order, rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure -- (a body of rules followed by an assembly)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cloture

1 sense of cloture

Sense 1
closure, cloture -- (terminate debate by calling for a vote; "debate was closured"; "cloture the discussion")
       => end, terminate -- (bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I")