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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An advantageous position, as for making one's views known or rallying support: "The presidency had been transformed from a bully pulpit on Pennsylvania Avenue to a stage the size of the world” ( Hugh Sidey).

Wiktionary

  1. n. US an advantageous position from which to express one's views

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An exceptionally advantageous position from which to extol one's ideas; -- applied especially to the presidency of the United States, which was described thus by President Theodore Rossevelt.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter

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  • “He never used his bully pulpit as a six-time astronaut, moon-walking hero, and chief of astronauts to formally make his case.”

    Simon & Schuster: Riding Rockets

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  • ecbrenner "A bully pulpit is a public office of sufficiently high rank that provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter. The bully pulpit can bring issues to the forefront that were not initially in debate, due to the office's stature and publicity." --Wikipedia Mar 17, 2009

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