Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A public meeting of persons in mass, or of all classes, to consider or listen to the discussion of some matter of common interest.
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Examples
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In his email to members, Woodley said a ballot for industrial action remained a possibility, with Bassa due to hold a mass-meeting next week to gather members 'opinions on the next move.
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We ought to organize a great central mass-meeting for the Sunday night before the Monday when the bill comes up for final hearing.
The Titan 2004
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In introducing Carl Schurz at a great mugwump mass-meeting at
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Holomisa said the latest in a "string of farcical attempts at sidelining Scopa" was the decision that the investigators would appear before a "mass-meeting" of parliamentary committees.
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The local community in New England once carried on its affairs satisfactorily in yearly mass-meeting, where every citizen had an equal privilege of speaking and voting directly upon a proposed measure, but there proved to be a limit to the efficiency of such government when the population increased, so that a meeting of all the citizens was impossible, and a constitutional assembly of representative citizens was devised.
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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If a mass-meeting of parents and children were to be held for the purpose of erecting a monument to the author who has done most to entertain and instruct the young folks, there would certainly be a unanimous vote in favor of Mr. Jacob Abbott.
Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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At a mass-meeting the other night a resolution was prepared and sent to the King, asking him to reject the treaty and resume the war.
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Shall he print posters of a great mass-meeting to organize a boys 'club?
The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work Allan Hoben
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It was at an immense Whig mass-meeting held at Springfield, Illinois, in the month of June of that year.
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They vary in size from a chance meeting of two or three friends who stop on the street corner and separate after a few minutes of conversation, to the great mass-meeting, that is called for a special purpose and interests
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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