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INTERPELLATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does interpellate mean?
• INTERPELLATE (verb)
The verb INTERPELLATE has 1 sense:
1. question formally about policy or government business
Familiarity information: INTERPELLATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they interpellate ... he / she / it interpellates
Past simple: interpellated
Past participle: interpellated
-ing form: interpellating
... he / she / it interpellates Past simple: interpellated
Past participle: interpellated
-ing form: interpellating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Question formally about policy or government business
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "interpellate" is one way to...):
query; question (pose a question)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
interpellation ((parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy)
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