interpellation

Noun
  1. (parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy (synset 106665905)
    referred to in: parliament - a legislative assembly in certain countries
    is a type of: order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order - a body of rules followed by an assembly
  2. The action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts (synset 101070108)
    is a type of: break, disruption, gap, interruption - an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
    same as: interjection, interpolation, interposition

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