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STUMP SPEECH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stump speech mean?
• STUMP SPEECH (noun)
The noun STUMP SPEECH has 1 sense:
1. political oratory
Familiarity information: STUMP SPEECH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Political oratory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("stump speech" is a kind of...):
oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))
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