stump speech
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6.5
- noun
- /stʌmp spiːch/
- Literature
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discurso de campaña
- The candidate practiced his stump speech multiple times before the rally to ensure he could deliver it confidently.
- deliver a stump speech
- give a stump speech
- candidate stump speeches
And then she moved into the stump speech, right?
- And then she moved into the stump speech, right?
- We listen to little stump speeches and one liners to get played over and over again and assume that that's just how it is.
- And one of the things that I brought over was this context layer over stump speeches that I created, actually at the Texas Tribune.
Examples
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Biden is now waving binders around during his stump speech.
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In Mitt Romney's closing stump speech, he says the door is open... join me, come walk with me.
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Did you hear his latest stump speech? He hardly mentions this!
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So, get your stump speech ready, resolve to change some hearts and minds, and go forth.
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We'll go through Romney's stump speech at a later time.
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Indeed, Ryan's previous stump speech on this was more effective.
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Vice President Joe Biden introduced a new prop into his stump speech on Friday: a binder.
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Education is a complicated public policy issue, ill-suited for reductive stump speeches that serve only to score political points.
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During the campaign, I was observing a class in another department when Cynthia visited to give her two-minute stump speech.
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In the just-concluded presidential campaign, bombast about the million or more jobs "lost" in the Bush administration was a standard part of the stump speech of Democratic nominee John Kerry and running mate John Edwards.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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A formal talk given to an audience to inform or persuade
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7.9
A long talk that tries to convince people to buy something
Antonyms
How Rehearsed
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- Literature
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6.5
- Formal
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- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun combines 'stump' (to tour delivering campaign speeches) with 'speech' (a planned oral address), so the meaning—a standard speech a candidate repeats on the campaign trail—is directly inferable from the constituents. While the verb sense of 'stump' is somewhat specialized, given that meaning the phrase is compositional and therefore transparent to learners who know both words.
Etymology
Stump speech comes from old American campaigns when candidates would stand on a tree stump to talk to people in towns. Because they often gave the same short talk at every stop, the phrase came to mean 'a speech repeatedly delivered during a campaign'.