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ELECTORATE

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• ELECTORATE (noun)
The noun ELECTORATE has 1 sense:

1. the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote

Familiarity information: ELECTORATE used as a noun is very rare.

• ELECTORATE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("electorate" is a kind of...):

citizenry; people (the body of citizens of a state or country)

Meronyms (members of "electorate"):

constituency (the body of voters who elect a representative for their area)

vote (a body of voters who have the same interests)

elector; voter (a citizen who has a legal right to vote)

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(English proverb)
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(Albanian proverb)
"For the sake of the flowers, the weeds are watered."
(Arabic proverb)
"What can a cat do if its master is crazy."
(Corsican proverb)

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