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speakout

speakout noun: a public forum or meeting at which members of a community speak out about an issue facing the community, e.g. rape.

Noun

speakout (plural speakouts)

  1. A public forum or meeting at which members of a community speak out about an issue facing the community, e.g. rape.
    • Sui Wai Anderson, a pianist and songwriter, performed two original compositions and preceded a speak-out by two women who gave personal accounts of illegal abortions they obtained before the 1973 Supreme Court decision.1984 February 4, Sue Hyde, “Abortion Activists Mark Jan 22. Anniversary”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 13
    • What they lack, though, is something that has to do with the stepping of the individual storyteller into the public when she (or he) tells her (or his) own rape story in a speakout.2002, The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in Understanding, →ISBN

Forms of speakout

pluralspeakouts

Origin of speakout

Deverbal from speak out.

Questions about speakout

What does speakout mean?
Speakout means a public forum or meeting at which members of a community speak out about an issue facing the community, e.g. rape.
What part of speech is speakout?
Speakout is a noun.
What is the plural of speakout?
The plural of speakout is speakouts.

Words near speakout in the dictionary

  1. speakings
  2. Speakman
  3. Speakmans
  4. speako
  5. speakos
  6. speakout
  7. speakouts
  8. speaks
  9. speaks as one finds
  10. speaks down to
  11. speaks for

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