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big tent

noun
a political party's or coalition's policy or doctrine of allowing and encouraging a wide range of beliefs, opinions, and views among its members.
big-tent, adjective
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Big tent is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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big tent
 
n
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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