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wrecking amendments

wrecking amendments is the plural of wrecking amendment.

Meaning of wrecking amendment

Noun

wrecking amendment (plural wrecking amendments)

  1. An amendment made in bad faith by a legislator who disagrees with the principles of a bill and seeks to make it useless rather than simply voting against it.
    • Senator Littlebrain's wrecking amendment made the bill nonsensical by deleting the clauses that said what the law would do.

Questions about wrecking amendments

What is wrecking amendments the plural of?
Wrecking amendments is the plural of wrecking amendment.

Words near wrecking amendments in the dictionary

  1. wreckfishes
  2. wreckful
  3. Wreckhouse
  4. wrecking
  5. wrecking amendment
  6. wrecking amendments
  7. wrecking ball
  8. wrecking balls
  9. wrecking bar
  10. wrecking bars
  11. wrecking car

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