English-French translations for filibuster

• flibustier
  Serait-ce quelque flibustier qui empêche toute entreprise d'aboutir? Was it some filibuster that was preventing any business getting through?
  Nous ne pouvons accepter d'être pris en otages par des flibustiers. We cannot accept being prisoners of filibusters.
• obstruction parlementaire
  Je vous prie de ne pas faire de l’obstruction parlementaire. Please do not indulge in parliamentary filibustering.
  Il s’agit d’une tentative ridicule de déstabilisation de la démocratie et d’obstruction parlementaire. It is an attempt to subvert democracy and filibuster to a degree which is ludicrous.
  Vous avez fait une légère obstruction parlementaire, mais ce qui est fait est fait, nous ne pouvons plus rien y faire maintenant. You have indulged in a little parliamentary filibustering, but what is done is done, there is nothing we can do about it now.

Definition of filibuster

• A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; ''specifically'', a mercenary who travel#Verb|travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force
• A tactic employ#Verb|employed to delay#Verb|delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body, particularly the United States Senate
• A member of a legislative body causing such an obstruction; a filibusterer
• To take part in a private military action in a foreign country
• To use obstructionist tactics in a legislative body

Related words

• filibustiere
• filibustero
• filibustern
• Filibe
• Filiberto
• filibusterismo