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HUSTINGS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hustings mean?
• HUSTINGS (noun)
The noun HUSTINGS has 1 sense:
1. the activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making)
Familiarity information: HUSTINGS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("hustings" is a kind of...):
campaigning; candidacy; candidature; electioneering; political campaign (the campaign of a candidate to be elected)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
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