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Station for an oration
Answer for the clue "Station for an oration ", 7 letters:
soapbox
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context literally English) A crate for packing soap. 2 (context figuratively English) Any physical or media platform which gives prominence to the person on it and the views they espouse. 3 (context figuratively idiomatic English) A talk about one's ...
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n. a crate for packing soap a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it [syn: dais , podium , pulpit , rostrum , ambo , stump ]
Usage examples of soapbox.
Generals planned strategic air strikes beneath the no-nonsense glow of alternating current, and it was all out of control, like a kid's soapbox racer going downhill with no brakes: I was following my orders.
They stuck together despite their differences, drawn together by the same mysterious attractive force that causes streetcorner crackpots to set up their soapboxes right next to each other.
The prim guild charities with their stalls and leaflets had long hitched their skirts and gone back to Northcentral, the soapbox prophets had returned to their chapels, and even the speakers on the Rights of Mankind had vanished in flurries of leaflets, fights and accusations.
Here was Xavier Maclachlan himself on a soapbox, all jug ears and ten gallon hat, steadily denouncing the manned space program for the sake of the cameras.
Even Blissenhawk and the other orators who rose and fell from their soapboxes in the Easterlies on Noshiftdays would have kept their counsel here.
There'd be chairs, soapboxes for all, or at least carpets to squat on.
They are petty anarchists and God-botherers, the kind of trash you find howling on soapboxes in public parks, or handing out soiled leaflets in front of train stations.