单词 | poison pill amendment |
释义 | poison pill amendmentnoun An amendment to a legislative bill that considerably weakens the bill’s intended effect, or ruins the bill’s chances of passing.Trumball offered a poison pill amendment changing the eastern terminus of the railroad so as to render eastern lines unprofitable, but the amendment failed. |
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