Toastmasters
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- proper noun
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Toastmasters
- Over the years, I took a year's worth of improv classes, and I've been in Toastmasters for almost five years.
- Toastmasters club
- Toastmasters International
- Toastmasters meeting
Maybe you just take Toastmasters and learn to give a speech.
- Maybe you just take Toastmasters and learn to give a speech.
- So I, I googled public speaking practice and the first hit was called Toastmasters.
- So the, the, the relationship and the Toastmasters experience were two significant periods of my life that just cracked me open.
- First thing is doing Toastmasters, doing public speaking classes.
- Another way is there's some there used to be something called Toastmasters.
Examples
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Also, take advantage of the Chamber of Commerce, www.uschamber.com, Toastmasters www.toastmasters.org, and other groups that will allow you to give presentations about your company and provide a very friendly referral source.
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So for communication, I think many of my colleagues used to do Toastmasters and that worked for them.
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Maybe you just take Toastmasters and learn to give a speech.
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I would suggest that you join a Toastmasters club when you get back to Ireland.
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My university has its own chapter of Toastmasters, and I went to a few meetings.
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I know some shy people join something like Toastmasters to force themselves to speak in front of a group.
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Back in April, I also joined my local Toastmasters Club in order to work on my (lack of) public speaking skills.
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I joined Toastmasters and Rotary last year.
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Unique student organizations like the Uniform Patrol Team and the Toastmasters Club enhance the high academic standards of DC Prep.
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I joined a Toastmasters club to enhance my public speaking skills and gain more confidence.
How Energetic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Toastmasters = toastmaster (semi-transparent) = toast + master + s
The form is clearly the plural of 'toastmaster', but the organizational meaning (an international public-speaking association) is specialized and not fully inferable from the components by average learners.
Etymology
Toastmasters gets its name from the old role toastmaster, the person at a party who gives a toast — that is, to 'raise a glass and say a few words' — and the word master, meaning an 'expert'. So the name fits: the group helps people practise short speeches and become confident, skilled public speakers and leaders.