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💔 Emotional resolution 🏫 A shutdown 🚧 A blockage 🧩 Perceiving as whole 🗳️ End of debate 🗳️ To end discussion
to closure

to closure

1 7.5
To stop debate and call for an immediate vote
  • verb
  • /ˈkloʊʒər/
  • UK
translation icon : cerrar el debate

Examples

  • For these people, it makes a full apology and closure a much more distant prospect.

    Blog text (21)

  • Working like a well-turned epigram, its essential move is to make the violation of closure its fulfillment.

    Academic text (1993)

  • IF THE SCHOOL IS ON THE ROAD TO CLOSURE, AT LEAST SHE’LL MAKE IT AN INTERESTING RIDE.

    Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)

  • The chairman called for closure on the bill after hours of debate, prompting an immediate vote.

  • In the legislative session, the minority party requested closure to move forward with the voting process.

  • The senator announced that he would invoke closure to end the lengthy discussion and proceed to a vote.

Synonyms

to close
vsto closure
∞ 1.0

To finish an event, meeting, or activity

is about ending debate by calling an immediate vote in legislative assembly
to close out
vsto closure
19 3.9

Finish a project, account, or process

is used specifically to end debate by calling an immediate vote in legislative assembly
to close the book on
vsto closure
  • Informal
5 5.3

Decide that a matter has ended and do nothing more about it

is about ending debate by calling an immediate vote in legislative assembly
to cloture
vsto closure
  • Formal
9.9

To end a debate by asking members to vote now

is the general procedural term for ending debate by immediate vote in legislative assembly

Phrasal Verbs

to find closure
2 5.9

To feel calm and able to live normally after a painful past event

to seek closure
1 7.0

Try to feel better after a painful or upsetting event

Compounds

closure by compartment
  • UK
9.9

A way to stop debate on parts of a bill so it can pass faster

angle-closure glaucoma
  • Specialized
6.1

A sudden eye condition when the coloured part blocks fluid drainage, causing a rapid rise in pressure inside the eye

law of closure
  • Specialized
7.7

A tendency to see an incomplete shape as a whole when your mind fills gaps

How Immediate

to closure
  • UK
1 7.5
guillotine
  • UK
1 8.3

Surface Forms

closure infinitive
closing present participle
closures third person singular
closed past
closed past participle

Morphology

closure = close (semi-transparent) = close + ure

The form is related to 'close', but the -ure ending and the specialized parliamentary sense make the meaning only partly predictable.

Etymology

As a verb, closure comes from the Latin claudere, 'to shut', and is used like the verb close. To closure a debate is to 'shut' the discussion and move directly to a vote.