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UK
/hˈʌstɪŋz/
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[ US /ˈhəstɪŋz/ ]
[ US /ˈhəstɪŋz/ ]
NOUN
- the activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making)
How To Use hustings In A Sentence
- Meanwhile, back on the hustings the law-and-order brigade has apparently got all the answers to our street crime problems.
- And I was among a great chorus out on the hustings speaking out against this consistent and constant deficit spending.
- On the hustings, each party's platform touches on a few economic issues.
- The conference voted to put a list of questions over the war to every candidate in the election, to publicise the results and to hold hustings over the war.
- She was ill during hustings and had to send a proxy to make speeches on her behalf in the run up to polling day.
- The recent London mayoral election saw a dramatic return to the popularity of the old hustings with packed meetings. Times, Sunday Times
- And I was among a great chorus out on the hustings speaking out against this consistent and constant deficit spending.
- With the federal election looming, the political leaders have been out on the hustings and the ads are coming thick and fast.
- They can sit there and smile, point, and carry on, but they know they do not have anything to go out and sell on the hustings, and that their people are just as disappointed.
- When members go around this country on the hustings this year, people will acknowledge that this Government has delivered for rural New Zealand.