Meaning of hustings | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A platform where candidates in an election give speeches; a husting.
2. An election campaign.
   broadly

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Washington is awfully deserted now that every congressman is out on the hustings.”

“Health secretary Matt Hancock was booed and heckled at a general election hustings in his constituency after he launched an attack on Jeremy Corbyn over his handling of antisemitism.”

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