English-Swedish translations for filibuster

• filibuster
  Var det någon filibuster som förhindrade en affärsuppgörelse?Was it some filibuster that was preventing any business getting through?
  Var vänlig och hänge er inte åt filibustertaktik här i parlamentet.Please do not indulge in parliamentary filibustering.
  Ni har ägnat er åt filibustertaktik här i parlamentet, men gjort är gjort och vi kan inte göra något åt det.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