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Definition of Take the floor
1. Verb. Stand up to dance.
2. Verb. Rise in order to make a speech or motion.
Definition of Take the floor
1. Verb. (intransitive) To speak at a public meeting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Take The Floor
Literary usage of Take the floor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Orations, Addresses and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910)
"At the time of which I speak no one was prepared to take the floor; and if no
one did take the floor, then a would come and Senator Quay's carefully ..."
2. The New American Government and Its Work by James Thomas Young (1915)
"... which list he then delivers at the Speaker's desk, thereby fixing the order
in which the members of his party shall take the floor; or more usually he ..."
3. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1868)
"If your first effort does not succeed, take the right side ; if that does not
do, take the left ; if that does not do, take the floor. ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"... floor addressing the house, and certainly you will not take the floor from me."
Mr. Inge. " I ask the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Stanton) to yield ..."
5. Fifty years among the Baptists by David Benedict (1860)
"... SPEAKERS take the floor Too OFTEN.—Too LONG. ONE year after the formation of
the Southern Baptist Convention, or in 1846, the old Triennial Convention, ..."
6. Proceedings of the ... Convention by Boot and Shoe Workers Union (1907)
"One of thini is - delegate and has a right to take the floor. The other Is not
a delegate, but I believe he should be heard and let the brothers and sisters ..."
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