hustings
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA: /ˈhʌstɪŋz/
hustings (plural hustings)
- A platform where candidates in an election give speeches; a husting.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, From This World to the Next:
- I now mounted the hustings, and, without any regard to decency or modesty, made as emphatical a speech in favour of the king as before I had done against him.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, From This World to the Next:
- (by extension) An election campaign.
- Washington is awfully deserted now that every congressman is out on the hustings.
- plural form of husting
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