interpellation
IPA: ɪntˈɝpʌɫˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (politics) The act of interpellating (questioning); the period in which government officials are questioned about and explain an act, a policy or a point raised during a debate.
- (philosophy) The act of interpellating: the act of identification.
- The act of interpelling: interruption.
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Examples of "interpellation" in Sentences
- The word interpellation is used in three senses.
- It seems almost certain to be a later interpellation.
- It is constituted through the process of interpellation.
- Perhaps it was a case of interpellation that we came to accept this section.
- And the day of the proposed interpellation he entered the novitiate of Laval.
- The center right opposition had filed a interpellation about the drug problem.
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