| big tent n. A group, especially a political coalition, that accommodates people who have a wide range of beliefs, principles, or backgrounds: "[Lyndon] Johnson's . . . efforts to bring businessman and laborer, black and white, city dweller and dirt farmer into his big tent . . . seemed to mark him as a smoother" (Time). big  -tent (b gt nt) adj. |
big tent
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy)
a. a political approach in which a party claims to be open to a wide spectrum of constituents and groups
b. (as modifier) big-tent politics
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