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单词 democracy
释义
democracy
noun
uk
/dɪˈmɒk.rə.si/us
/dɪˈmɑː.krə.si/
B2[U]
thebeliefinfreedomandequalitybetweenpeople, or asystemofgovernmentbasedon thisbelief, in whichpoweris eitherheldbyelectedrepresentativesordirectlyby thepeoplethemselves:
民主；民主思想；民主政体
Thegovernmenthaspromisedtoupholdtheprinciplesof democracy.政府承诺将坚持民主的原则。
The early 1990ssawthespreadof democracy inEasternEurope.20世纪90年代初，民主思想在东欧迅速传播。
B2[C]
acountryin whichpowerisheldbyelectedrepresentatives:
民主国家
Few of theWesterndemocracies still have aroyalfamily.西方民主国家鲜有保留皇室者。
More examples
  • Astrongoppositionisvitalto ahealthydemocracy.
  • There cannot betruedemocracy withoutreformof theelectoralsystem.
  • Sweden is oftenheldup as anexampleof asuccessfulsocialdemocracy.
  • Therecentfreeelectionsmarkthe nextstepin the country'sprogresstowards democracy.
  • Westerngovernmentsshould be giving moreaidto theemergingdemocracies of the ThirdWorld.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Systems of government
  • a reign of terroridiom
  • absolutism
  • ancien régime
  • anti-apartheid
  • anti-communism
  • anti-federalist
  • democratization
  • democratize
  • despotic
  • despotically
  • despotism
  • martial law
  • matriarchal
  • matriarchy
  • meritocracy
  • meritocratic
  • pre-fascist
  • regime
  • reign
  • republican
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(Definition ofdemocracyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

democracy| American Dictionary

democracy
noun[C/U]
us
/dɪˈmɑk·rə·si/
politics & government
thebeliefinfreedomandequalitybetweenpeople, or asystemofgovernmentbasedon thisbelief, in whichpoweris eitherheldbyelectedrepresentativesordirectlyby thepeoplethemselves
politics & government
A democracy is acountryin whichpowerisheldbyelectedrepresentatives.
(Definition ofdemocracyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

democracy| Business English

democracy
noun
uk
/dɪˈmɒkrəsi/us
[U]WORKPLACE,MANAGEMENT
asituation,system, ororganizationin which everyone hasequalrightsandopportunities, and canhelpmakedecisions:
corporatedemocracy
shareholderdemocracy
[U]POLITICS
thebeliefthat everyone in acountryhas therighttoexpresstheiropinions, and thatpowershould beheldbypeoplewho areelected, or asystemofgovernmentbasedon thisbelief:
Thecountrywascelebratingitsreturnto democracy.
[C]POLITICS
acountryin whichpowerisheldbypeoplewho areelected:
It is now astable, well-governed democracy.

See also

industrial democracy
workplace democracy
(Definition ofdemocracyfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdemocracy

democracy
Advocates of market liberalization commonly worry that democracies will eschew economically rational policies because voters cannot tolerate short-term pain on the promise of long-term gain.
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The demand for redistribution is fairly inelastic across industrialized democracies.
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Further, while the number of new parties decreases gradually as democracies age, the support for new entrants follows no clear unidirectional pattern across time.
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Establishing whether democracies adopt similar growth strategies is important : the economic strategies chosen by governments can have serious implications for income distribution and human welfare.
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Moreover, my calculations of consensus democracies from the late 1960s to 1990 are not closely associated with neo-corporatism.
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Such developing democracies clearly represent promising territory for research on the political impact of television.
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To date, this coding procedure has been applied to over 1,500 programmes, in about thirty democracies, during the post-war period.
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We tested this assertion on 113 elections in thirteen democracies.
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The culmination of a decade-long process of harmonization and negotiation, this invitation symbolized the success of these countries in instituting political democracies and market economies.
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Electoral democracies now represent 120 of the 192 existing countries and constitute 62.5 percent of the world's population.
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We expect that the more advanced democracies will have mass publics who are negative to a situation where religion plays an important role in politics.
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The directive for emerging democracies is clear - promote democratically oriented parties and citizen participation in these parties.
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In most parliamentary democracies, single parties are unable to command a majority of support in the legislature.
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Finally, he finds evidence that new democracies with low levels of initial political competition are also more likely to meet with civil conflict.
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Why do new parties keep emerging and winning votes in new democracies?
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Collocationswithdemocracy

democracy

These are words often used in combination withdemocracy.

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advanced democracy
I am reminded that that is indeed one of the outcomes ofadvanceddemocracy.
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Hansard archive
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bourgeois democracy
French bourgeois democracy is preparing to assassinate the proletariat.
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concept of democracy
For example, a particularconceptofdemocracywas, in fact, part of communist philosophy.
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