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big tent

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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 (bgtnt) 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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It was during the afternoon performance, and the big tent was filled with women and children, when I went looking for Red Denny, the head canvas-man, who had walked off with my pocket-knife.
 
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