platform

A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.

Always, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, as in private conversation, there is an absolute simplicity about the man and his words; a simplicity, an earnestness, a complete honesty.

“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.

A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion.

This new talk show will give a platform to everyday men and women.

[LeBron] James did not say which vaccine he had taken or the number of doses he had received. He also said that he would not use his platform to publicly encourage others to be vaccinated.

Something that allows an enterprise to advance.

Hidgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.

A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.

Now if the earth could be enjoyed in such a manner as every one might have provision, as it may by this platform I have offered, then will the peace of the commonwealth be preserved, and men need not act so hypocritically as the clergy do, and others likewise, to get a living.

The Communist Party and its candidates stand on the following platform, which expresses the immediate interests of the majority of the population of our country.

To furnish with or shape into a platform

[…] upon a smiling knoll platformed by Nature […]

To place on, or as if on, a platform.

And this dog was satisfied / If a pale thin hand would glide / Down his dewlaps sloping / Which he pushed his nose within, / After—platforming his chin / On the palm left open.

To place a train alongside a station platform.

There he was welcomed onboard Vivarail's new three-car battery-powered train and Porterbrook's HydroFLEX hydrogen-powered train, which had been platformed side-by-side to showcase the potential of these low-carbon alternative technologies.

To include in a political platform

Among them I scarcely can plot out one truth / Plain enough to be platformed by some voting sleuth / And paraded before the precinct polling-booth.

To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).

We want to platform the larger, unspoken issue of menstrual health and hygiene of women at work, and how we as a society need to start taking cognizance of it and start adopting measures to help our women workforce navigate it with ease.

If Buckley were still alive today, could a university get away with platforming him in a debate?