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Answer for the clue "The crowd appearing at an event ", 7 letters:
turnout

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Word definitions for turnout in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 attendance; crowd 2 (context US English) a place to pull off a road 3 (context rail transport chiefly US English) a place where moveable rails allow a train to switch tracks; a set of points

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Turnout may refer to: Turnout (ballet) , a rotation of the leg which comes from the hips, causing the knee and foot to turn outward, away from the center of the body Turnout (film) , a British film Voter turnout , the percentage of eligible voters who cast ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the group that gathers together for a particular occasion; "a large turnout for the meeting" a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park [syn: widening ] a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable ...

Usage examples of turnout.

Milt Frye, the PA announcer, told us attendance stood at over three thousand, a better than decent turnout even if beaucoups of our admissions had “paid” for their seats with scrap metal.

I took my old Cherrypicker uniform--the smartest turnout any soldier ever had anywhere--because I felt it would be useful to cut a dash, but for the rest I stuck to necessaries.

It was a better turnout even than last Dingaan's Day, the Day of the Covenant with God in thanksgiving for victory over the Zulu hordes and one of the most sacred occasions in the calendar of the Reformed Church.

Amid unusually high voter turnout, Reagan was re-elected in the largest electoral college total ever.

Troubled by a light turnout of reservists, the 10th Panzer could only muster seven full panzer and panzergrenadier battalions by the 18th of January.

Even the turnout of reservists reflected this difference, with the 2nd Panzer Division boasting nine ground maneuver battalions, making it the largest German division in the field.

But it was a satisfying turnout, and when the Smiths did arrive they’d take up a goodly number of those empty spaces.

Two firefighters in turnout gear and high rubber boots climbed down and briefly conferred with McGovern before uncoiling one-and-three-quarter-inch hoses attached to filters.

Which fact then in turn, the short but highly respected CBS cameraman says, helps explain why, even though our elected representatives are always wringing their hands and making concerned sounds about low voter-turnouts, nothing substantive ever gets done to make politics less ugly or depressing or to actually induce more people to vote: our elected representatives are incumbents, and low turnouts favor incumbents for the same reason soft money does.

All of the automobiles at Brill were in use, and with them all of the turnouts that could be hired in the vicinity.

I have heard turnouts lately that there was to be a definite legal separation.

As Sir Ralph Curtis, head of a great engineering firm, he had made his mark in the House of Commons, and he was now freely spoken of as the coming man, and the one most likely to be asked to form a ministry should the turnouts as to Mr David MacAdam's health prove well founded.

Two or three times I stopped in turnouts and went to the edge to peer hopefully into the silent murk, knowing that the canyon was out there, just beyond my nose, but I couldn't see anything.

I drove on to Hayden Valley, where you can stop the car at frequent turnouts and look out upon the plain of the Yellowstone River.

There were turnouts cut from the jungle brush every few hundred meters to allow things to pass, but clearly, if this road had a lot of traffic on it, they all knew it would be sheer luck backing into one of those.