bully pulpit

1. 1.

   a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter

   “the American presidency is a bully pulpit”

   Broaderpublic office

Questions about bully pulpit

What does bully pulpit mean?

bully pulpit means "a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter".

Is bully pulpit a common word?

bully pulpit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.