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take the stump en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (US) To make a series of political speeches, especially to promote a particular cause.
    • Still calling himself a Whig, Lincoln took the stump in behalf of anti-Nebraska candidates for the legislature, hoping that victory would forge a legislative majority to elect him to the U. S. Senate. 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 127:

Forms

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took the stump Tense=Past lexicographic
takes the stump Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
taking the stump Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
taken the stump Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic