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hustings
hust·ings H0335200 (hŭs′tĭngz)pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)1. a. A place where political campaign speeches are made: a candidate out on the hustings in the farm belt.b. The activities involved in political campaigning: a veteran of the hustings.2. Chiefly British A court formerly held in some English cities and still held infrequently in London.3. Chiefly British a. A platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood to address the electors.b. The proceedings of a parliamentary election.
[From Middle English husting, court of common pleas, from Old English hūsting, court, from Old Norse hūsthing : hūs, house + thing, assembly.]hustings (ˈhʌstɪŋz) n (functioning as plural or singular) 1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Brit (before 1872) the platform on which candidates were nominated for Parliament and from which they addressed the electors2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the proceedings at a parliamentary election3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) political campaigning[C11: from Old Norse hūsthing, from hūs house + thing assembly]hus•tings (ˈhʌs tɪŋz)
n. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) 1. any place from which political campaign speeches are made. 2. (before 1872) the temporary platform on which candidates for the British Parliament stood when nominated and from which they addressed the electors. 3. the political campaign trail. 4. Also called hus′tings court`. a local court in certain parts of Virginia. [before 1050; Middle English, Old English < Old Norse hūs-thing house meeting. See house, thing2] hustings - Its early meaning of "platform" led to its sense of "any place from which campaign speeches are made" and "political campaigning."See also related terms for platform.hustingsPolitical campaigning, or a place where political speeches are made during an election.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | hustings - the activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making)campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign - the campaign of a candidate to be electedplural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one |
Translationshustings
take to the hustingsTo campaign, with an emphasis on delivering political speeches. A "hustings" was the platform on which candidates were nominated to British Parliament through the mid-19th century. If you want to be voted onto city council, you need to take to the hustings and talk to the people.See also: hustings, takeon the hustingsCampaigning for office. The noun hustings comes from the Old Norse husthing, for house assembly, which meant a council held by a king or other leader that included his immediate followers (rather than a large assembly of the people). In England husting became a court of law, specifically the highest court of the City of London. Eventually it was transferred, in the plural, to the platform where the city officials sat, and later still to the platform from which candidates for Parliament were nominated. From this last sense came its current meaning of the candidates’ platform for campaign speeches, or simply campaigning. A synonymous phrase with a far simpler history is on the stump. An Americanism dating from the 1700s, it alludes to a tree stump used as a platform by a frontiersman making a speech.See also: hustings, onhustings
hustings1. Brit (before 1872) the platform on which candidates were nominated for Parliament and from which they addressed the electors 2. the proceedings at a parliamentary election 3. political campaigning Hustings
HUSTINGS, Engl. law. The name of a court held before the lord mayor and aldermen of London; it is the principal and supreme court of the city., See 2 Inst. 327; St. Armand, Hist. Essay on the Legisl. Power of England, 75. hustings
Words related to hustingsnoun the activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making)Related Words- campaigning
- candidacy
- candidature
- electioneering
- political campaign
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