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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (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;
- Example: "the American presidency is a bully pulpit"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

bully pulpit \bul"ly pul"pit\, n. An exceptionally advantageous position from which to extol one's ideas; -- applied especially to the presidency of the United States, which was described thus by President Theodore Rossevelt. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bully pulpit n 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"