0 a situation or meeting in which people can talk about a problem or matter especially of public interest:
a forum for debate/discussion
1 a place on the internet where people can leave messages or discuss particular subjects with other people at the same time:
Discussion forums are a way of contacting people with similar interests from all over the world.
2 in ancient Rome, the area in the middle of the town used for public business
3 an occasion or a place for talking about a matter of public interest:
The university sponsored a forum on affirmative action.
4 a meeting in which people can discuss subjects that are important to them with others:
create/provide a forum for sth The meeting provided a valuable forum for discussing the issue from many diverse perspectives.
an international/regional/public forum They plan to discuss the survey results in a public forum.
an economic/policy forum At its summer policy forum, Labour appears to have offered a compromise.
5 a group of people who use the internet to discuss subjects that are important or interesting to them:
The interplay of race, class, gender and generation was played out in local meetings, churches, picnics, dances, youth forums and campaigns.
Examples are writing op-ed articles and speaking out in public forums - now merely occasional.
In these forums farmers routinely recanted, switching from pro to anti and back again, and charges of fraud were commonplace.
Is it any wonder men endeavored to deny women access to public forums ?
The details of this experience were periodically published as well as presented at scientific forums.
In local government in particular we have seen substantial moves towards more decentralised forms of service provision in terms of area offices, or neighbourhood forums.
Participatory forums also reveal sources of political and economic inequality that undermine efforts to grant the unorganised poor genuine decision-making power.
Such occasions also had the unintended consequence of providing public forums for expressions of opposing viewpoints.
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