PLATFORM

[noun] [C] - a flat raised area or structureMake a platform from these boxes and put the music system on that.See picture: Energy(UK and ANZ) A platform (US track) at a railway station is a long flat raised structure where people get on and off trains.So many times he had stood on railway platforms waving goodbye to her.The train for Cambridge will depart from platform 9.A platform is also the raised part of the floor in a large room, from which you make a speech or give a musical performance.Speaker after speaker mounted/took the platform to denounce the policy.It was the first time a Green politician and a Labour minister had shared a platform (= given speeches at the same event).This brilliant young violinist, still only 13 years old, has appeared on concert platforms all round the world.(UK) The platform is also the people who are in the raised part of a room to make speeches.An elderly lady in the audience stood up and said she had a question for the platform.The platform party (= the group on the platform) applauded loudly.A platform is also an opportunity to make your opinion known publicly.He paid $150 million for a national newspaper and used it as a platform for airing his personal view on the war.By refusing to give us a grant to make this programme, they are denying us a platform.A politician's or political party's platform is the things that they say they believe in and that they will achieve, which they hope will persuade people to support and vote for them in an election.We campaigned on a platform of low taxation and reduced government intervention in the economy.Platform shoes (also platforms) are shoes that have extremely thick bottoms so that the feet are raised more than usual from the ground.