hustings

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  1. plural noun A place where political campaign speeches are made: a candidate out on the hustings in the farm belt.
  2. plural noun The activities involved in political campaigning: a veteran of the hustings.
  3. plural noun Chiefly British A court formerly held in some English cities and still held infrequently in London.
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  • It was concentrated around the two hustings, the wide open spaces of the Butts being inimical to the use of broken bottles and flick-knives as giving too much opportunity to the Grammar School adversaries of employing evasive measures. —  PAGEANT OF MURDER - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 38
  • On the hustings were posted a set of young men, neatly dressed in blue and buff for the occasion, blacklegs from all the race-courses, and all the Pharo and E.O. tables in town. —  Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third.
  • I think the hustings is the best place for politicians right now —  Macleans.ca
  • The only attention he ever got on the hustings was as a freakshow and he withdrew in disgust and endorsed the man he had been reviling for half a year: George Bush. —  DownWithTyranny!
  • The Congress high command at the centre has asked the state unit of the party to gird up for the hustings, and Prof Soz urged workers to prepare themselves during a speech in Jammu yesterday. —  Kashmir Observer ::
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  1. From Middle English husting, court of common pleas, from Old English hūsting, court, from Old Norse hūsthing : hūs, house + thing, assembly.
 

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