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UK
/plˈætfɔːm/
]
[ US /ˈpɫætˌfɔɹm/ ]
[ US /ˈpɫætˌfɔɹm/ ]
NOUN
- any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons
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a raised horizontal surface
the speaker mounted the platform -
a document stating the aims and principles of a political party
they won the election even though they offered no positive program
their candidate simply ignored the party platform - a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole
- the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system
How To Use platform In A Sentence
- Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
- She took a lot of tweed and heavy suiting, an ankle-length dress and platform shoes - quite the bonkers stuff.
- No, but they more or less remained together, I hate to use the word ideologically, but I guess for want of a better word, they seemed to always react, more or less, the same way to political situations and to political candidates 'platforms. Oral History Interview with Lindy Boggs, January 31, 1974. Interview A-0082. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
- This platform of existence, many millions of years old, continues today with the gorillas and chimpanzees. Times, Sunday Times
- Station improvements are being considered for Shenfield while Gidea Park, Harold Wood and Brentwood are in line for platform extensions and station revamps.
- Except that in Latin a ship's prow was called a rostrum and the plural of rostrum was rostra so they called the speaking platform rostra.
- We are pleased to offer our clients access to CBX ASIA through our trading platform as we remain fully committed to providing the broadest selection of liquidity in Asia and globally, ensuring that our clients have a unique and dynamic edge when accessing trading venues". Bobsguide Financial Industry News
- By backing the policy, he committed the party to supporting a 'no-platform' policy.
- Relaxing, in amusement at her unwonted altruism of motive, she had drawn her moleskin coat more closely around her, and settled back to wait the other woman's pleasure in returning to the bright warmth that the pale-orange ribbon of light, wavering upon the swaying platform, harbingered. Undesirables
- There is also a platform for special passenger trains that is only in use when a race is on.