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"