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hustings

noun
🔊/ˈhʌstɪŋz/
🔊/ˈhʌstɪŋz/
(plural hustings)
(especially British English)
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  1. [countable] a meeting before an election at which candidates speak to voters
    • an election hustings选举集会
  2. the hustings
     [plural] the political meetings, speeches, etc. that take place in the period before an election竞选活动（竞选前进行的政治集会、演讲等）
    • on the hustings Most candidates will be out on the hustings this week.大多数候选人本星期将进行竞选活动。🔊🔊
    Topics Politicsc2
    3. Word Originlate Old English husting ‘deliberative assembly, council’, from Old Norse hústhing ‘household assembly held by a leader’, from hús ‘house’ + thing ‘assembly, parliament’; hustings was applied in Middle English to the highest court of the City of London, presided over by the Recorder of London. It later denoted the platform in the Guildhall where the Lord Mayor and aldermen presided, and (early 18th cent.) a temporary platform on which parliamentary candidates were nominated; hence the sense ‘electoral proceedings’.