Definition of "grandstand" []

• A roofed stand for spectators at a stadium or racetrack. (noun)
• The spectators or audience at an event. (noun)
• To perform ostentatiously so as to impress an audience. (verb-intransitive)

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• "The grandstand is of the same age, and material as the now departed east stands at Daylis Stadium."
• "The temptation to play confrontation politics, to play to the grandstand, is the worrying consequence."
• "At ten o'clock the games began -- and I took the Blight and the little sister down to the "grandstand" -- several tiers of backless benches with leaves for a canopy and the river singing through rhododendrons behind."