Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wrecking amendment

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English

Syllables: wreck-ing a-mend-ment
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Example Sentences

"Senator Littlebrain's wrecking amendment made the bill nonsensical by deleting the clauses that said what the law would do."
"This is such a dumb (and dangerous) idea that it has all the characteristics of a wrecking amendment, added to the Bill just to eat up parliamentary time so that the whole Bill will fall at the dissolution for the upcoming election."

Inflected Forms

wrecking amendments (plural)

Questions

What does wrecking amendment mean?: 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.

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