Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

continuing resolution

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English

Syllables
con-tin-u-ing res-o-lu-tion
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An act of Congress which extends the current governmental budget situation through allocation of further funds in the same manner as the current budget, to avoid a government shutdown due to lack of allocated funding.

American usage

Etymology

From continuing + resolution. From being an act of congress (a congressional resolution) which extends the situation.

Usage

Inflected Forms

continuing resolutions (plural)

Derived Forms

CR

Synonyms

CR

Questions

What does continuing resolution mean?
An act of Congress which extends the current governmental budget situation through allocation of further funds in the same manner as the current budget, to avoid a government shutdown due to lack of allocated funding.
Where does continuing resolution come from?
From continuing + resolution. From being an act of congress (a congressional resolution) which extends the situation.

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