hustings

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌstɪŋz/

Originally the plural of husting, later construed as a singular.

hustings (plural hustings)

1. A platform where candidates in an election give speeches; a husting.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, From This World to the Next:

     I now mounted the hustings, and, without any regard to decency or modesty, made as emphatical a speech in favour of the king as before I had done against him.

2. (by extension) An election campaign.

   Washington is awfully deserted now that every congressman is out on the hustings.

   • 2019 November 30, Eleanor Busby, “Matt Hancock booed and heckled by crowd as hustings descends into chaos”, in The Independent‎:

     Health secretary Matt Hancock was booed and heckled at a general election hustings in his constituency after he launched an attack on Jeremy Corbyn over his handling of antisemitism.

See the etymology of the main entry.

hustings

1. plural of husting

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