floodgate means A series of allegations of corruption, mismanagement, and irregularities in flood control projects in the Philippines during and before the administration of President Bongbong Marcos. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
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- A series of allegations of corruption, mismanagement, and irregularities in flood control projects in the Philippines during and before the administration of President Bongbong Marcos.
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- An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.“At the start of the Second World War floodgates would be installed at the ends of the under-Thames sections of the Bakerloo and Northern lines to save them from inundation should bombs damage the riverbed.”
- Anything that controls or limits an outpouring of people, emotion, etc.““The floodgates for advertising on cable are down,” says Michael Dann, a leading consultant on cable television.”
- A stream that passes through a floodgate; a torrent.“Out of her gored wound the cruell ſteel / He lightly ſnatcht, and did the floodgate ſtop / VVith his faire garment: then gan ſoftly feel her feeble pulſe, to proue if any drop / Of liuing blood yet in her veynes did hop”