Usually means: Begin speaking in a meeting.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. take the floor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. take the floor: Merriam-Webster
  3. take the floor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. take the floor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. take the floor: Vocabulary.com
  6. take (to) the floor, take the floor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. take the floor: Wiktionary
  8. take the floor: Dictionary.com
  9. Take the Floor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. take the floor: Rhymezone
  11. take the floor: FreeDictionary.org
  12. take the floor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. take the floor: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take the floor: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take the floor: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take the floor)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To speak at a public meeting.

Similar:
give the floor, hold the floor, have the floor, orate, elocutionize, speechify, floor, speak, exhibit, lecture, more...

Opposite:
yield floor, give up floor, cede floor

Types:
speak, give speech, address, give talk, orate, more...

Adjectives:
nait, going, try, own, like, attack, taking, take-away, abroach, put up, onz

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Similar:
give the floor, hold the floor, have the floor, orate, elocutionize, speechify, floor, speak, exhibit, lecture, more...

Opposite:
yield floor, give up floor, cede floor

Types:
speak, give speech, address, give talk, orate, more...

Adjectives:
nait, going, try, own, like, attack, taking, take-away, abroach, put up, onz



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