A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
A device used for cutting the pages of books, stacks of paper, etc., to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged or sliding blade attached to a flat platform.
A parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.
An instrument with a sliding blade for cutting the tonsils, uvula, or other body parts.
A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.
To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.
To cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine.
To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
To execute (someone) with a guillotine.
The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
Memory; the ability to remember.
The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
Request of the return of a faulty product.
To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
To call again, to call another time.
To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).