0 past simple and past participle of guillotine --
1 to cut someone's head off using a guillotine: --
During the French Revolution, thousands of people were guillotined.
2 to set a fixed time before a final vote must be taken on a particular law in Parliament: --
So, we are faced with a plethora of legislation, and we confidently await guillotined timetables denying it sufficient time for proper consideration.
The amendment was just proposed and the vote was taken, because it was guillotined.
As you know, it has already been cruelly guillotined.
I think it was guillotined at a much later stage.
We should also remember that in the past, many groups of amendments on guillotined bills were not discussed.
In that regard, we have an advantage over our friends in another place, across the iron carpet, in that our debate cannot be guillotined.
It is unreasonable and improper to table a guillotine motion in a way that takes time out of guillotined debate.
But it would be too high a price to pay for improving the hours if all legislation were to be guillotined.
