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all-candidates meeting
DCHP-2 (Sep 2016)
Spelling variants:all-candidates' meeting, all candidates meeting
n. — Politics
a public meeting in which candidates from all parties debate issues pertaining to the election.
Type: 5. Frequency — The term is almost exclusively restricted to Canada (see Chart 1), where it is widespread. While all-candidates meeting, with the plural qualifier, denotes a feature of Canadian election campaigns, the related term all-candidate meeting, with a singular qualifier, has some frequency in the US, but is limited in Canada. In general, however, AmE prefers compounds with 'debate', such as in (Democratic or Republican) presidential debate.
See also COD-2, s.v. "all-candidates meeting", which is marked "Cdn".
See also COD-2, s.v. "all-candidates meeting", which is marked "Cdn".
Quotations
1962
"In the House of Commons we have developed a bi-partisan foreign policy," he told 90 persons at an all-candidates meeting sponsored by the Keele-Wilson Ratepayers Association in Roding Public School.
1974
Candidate Terry O'Connor attended the all candidates meetings at Oakville Acton and Georgetown last week and then stopped in at a senior citizens lawn party in Milton last Saturday. Yesterday Mr. O'Connor was canvassing in Acton and Esquesing township and then attended a workers meeting in Oakville in the evening.
1980
He remembered that at the all-candidates' meetings there were usually good-sized audiences and fringe candidates got as much time to speak as major competitors.
1989
At an all-candidates meeting, Waxman said the election of Equality Party candidates would only worsen relations between Quebec's anglophones and francophones.
1995
Voters are invited to an all-candidates meeting Jan. 30 at 8 p.m. at the Westmount Baptist Church at Roslyn Ave. and Sherbrooke St. W.
References
- COD-2
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