fireside chat

noun

Any one of a series of 30 evening radio talks given by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944.

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Meanings

nounfireside chat (plural fireside chats)

plural fireside chats

  1. historicalAny one of a series of 30 evening radio talks given by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944.
  2. broadlyAn informal address delivered by a political leader over radio, television, or the Internet.
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APA

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Chicago

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