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SPEECHMAKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does speechmaking mean? 

SPEECHMAKING (noun)
  The noun SPEECHMAKING has 1 sense:

1. delivering an address to a public audienceplay

  Familiarity information: SPEECHMAKING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPEECHMAKING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Delivering an address to a public audience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

oral presentation; public speaking; speaking; speechmaking

Context example:

people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking

Hypernyms ("speechmaking" is a kind of...):

address; speech (the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "speechmaking"):

reading; recital; recitation (a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance)

debate; disputation; public debate (the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote))


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