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Date: 1800-1900
Language: French
Origin: clôture 'closure', from Old French closure, from Latin clausura, from claudere; CLOSE1

cloture

 noun
     
Related topics: Voting
clo‧ture [countable] American English technical
PPV a way of ending an argument over a bill in the US government and forcing a vote on it
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