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1 a level usually raised surface
  • you'll have to stand up there on the platform for your speech

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2 a place or opportunity for communicating ideas and information
  • for years the publisher has used his newspaper as a platform for his extreme political conservatism

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The first known use of platform was in 1535

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“Platform.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platform. Accessed 8 December 2019.

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