| 单词 | town hall meeting |
| 释义 | > as lemmastown hall meeting 2. North American. An event at which a politician answers questions on political issues from members of the public. Later also in extended use. Frequently attributive, esp. in town hall meeting. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of morn-speechOE court1154 morrow-speech1183 conventicle1382 congregation1389 plenary session1483 journeyc1500 night school1529 assession1560 general meeting1565 family meeting1638 panegyris1647 desk1691 collegea1703 annual general meeting1725 mass meeting1733 panegyre1757 plenum1772 family council1797 coterie1805 Round Table1830 GA1844 indignation meeting1848 protest meeting1852 hui1858 primary1859 Quaker meeting1861 mothers' meeting1865 sit-down1868 town hall1912 jamboree1919 protest rally1921 con1940 face-to-face1960 morning prayers1961 struggle meeting1966 be-in1967 love-in1967 plenary1969 catch-up1972 rencontre1975 schmoozefest1976 1912 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 8 Aug. 1/1 I want the people to ask me questions and to suggest ideas. It will be a sort of town hall meeting where everybody will be at liberty to take part. 1934 Washington Post 17 Dec. 1/2 Norman Thomas speaks to enthusiastic crowd at town hall meeting. Three members of the Roosevelt Cabinet, flanked by an audience that was quite at home in the Shoreham ballroom, heard the New Deal attacked..last night. 1980 N.Y. Times 15 Oct. a31/6 Carter is a bit of a genius at this ‘town hall’ game. He asks for the questioner's first name. 1990 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 23 Sept. (Business section) 1 Six months ago he [sc. the company chairman] began holding internal ‘town hall’ meetings, each with 175 employees randomly selected by computer. 1994 D. Nimmo in R. E. Denton 1992 Presidential Campaign ix. 217 At a town hall broadcast by CBS.., Clinton encountered a housewife who asked what appeared to be a spontaneous hardball question. 2009 D. Plouffe Audacity to Win (2010) 239 He said they were going to issue a challenge to us to do ten joint town halls in addition to the presidential debates. < as lemmas |
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