Usually means: Permission to speak to group.
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  1. have the floor: Merriam-Webster
  2. have the floor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. have the floor: Wiktionary
  4. have the floor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (have the floor)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To have permission or time to speak, especially in a formal situation.

Similar:
give the floor, take the floor, hold the floor, have a say, get to, be supposed to, have time, permission, orate, permit, more...

Opposite:
yield floor, give up floor, cede floor

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Similar:
give the floor, take the floor, hold the floor, have a say, get to, be supposed to, have time, permission, orate, permit, more...

Opposite:
yield floor, give up floor, cede floor



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