English-Spanish translations for filibuster

• filibustero
  ¿Algún filibustero que estaba entorpeciendo las cosas? Was it some filibuster that was preventing any business getting through?

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