Definitions of speechmaking
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delivering an address to a public audience“people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking”
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synonyms:
oral presentation, public speaking, speaking
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types:
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reading, recital, recitation
a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
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debate, disputation, public debate
the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote)
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declamation
recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric
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reading, recital, recitation
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