Usually means: Elevating someone above others excessively.
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  1. pedestalling: Merriam-Webster
  2. pedestalling: Wiktionary
  3. pedestalling: Dictionary.com
  4. pedestalling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pedestalling: Legal dictionary

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  1. pedestalling: Encyclopedia

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  1. pedestalling: Idioms

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  1. pedestalling: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

(Note: See pedestal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pedestal)

noun:  (architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
noun:  (figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.
noun:  (rail transport) A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
noun:  (machining) A pillow block; a low housing.
noun:  (bridge building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
noun:  (steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
noun:  (telecommunications) A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
noun:  (electronics) The measured value when no input signal is given.
noun:  (aviation) The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.
noun:  The tough protuberant pad covering a dromedary's sternum, which, when the camel lies down, causes the abdomen to be slightly above the hot ground.
verb:  To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.
▸ Also see pedestal


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