take_the_floor has definitions from the field of dance
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[ verb ] (dance) stand up to dance

Used in print

("Reviews"...)

Customers often bring their children ; between performances , enthusiastic young_men from the audience will take_the_floor to demonstrate their own amateur graces .

A graduate of Hollywood High_School , she likes to imagine herself , as she takes_the_floor , `` a village girl coming_in to a festival '' .

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arise

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[ verb ] rise in order to make a speech or motion

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address

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