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to take awaypoweroropportunities,especiallytherighttovote, from apersonorgroup 剥夺…的权力，使失去权力（尤指选举权）；剥夺…的机会SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesElections - absentee
- absentee ballot
- absentee vote
- absentee voter
- absentee voting
- exit poll
- first-past-the-post
- flip
- franchise
- general election
- proportional representation
- proxy
- proxy vote
- proxy voter
- proxy voting
- voting
- voting booth
- voting machine
- voting slip
- whistle-stop
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disenfranchise| American Dictionarypolitics & governmentto take away a person’srighttovote Examplesofdisenfranchisedisenfranchise Both the refugees and those who became politically disenfranchised joined the ranks of stateless persons.From theCambridge English Corpus If certain combinations of votes were rejected as inadmissible, they would be effectively disenfranchised.From theCambridge English Corpus As may be seen on the personnel chart, the artist is placed there in a strange position, seemingly disenfranchised of the operating structure.From theCambridge English Corpus Indeed, the political empowerment of previously disenfranchised groups makes them a more permanent and potent force leaning against reversal.From theCambridge English Corpus One objection is that presumed consent takes away individual autonomy and that people will be disenfranchised from their own bodies.From theCambridge English Corpus In this view, institutions may empower ordisenfranchisespecific interests.From theCambridge English Corpus First, it provides one instance of how issues usually restricted to the domestic sphere could produce new opportunities for the politically disenfranchised.From theCambridge English Corpus To be consistent, we must be willing to condemn infringements on the rights of the disenfranchised at home as well as abroad.From theCambridge English Corpus To disenfranchised ex-samurai, it was a warm tropical paradise, a territory in which to gain personal achievements and fulfill a sense of adventure.From theCambridge English Corpus The program intensified economic insecurity of households, and by targeting men disenfranchised women, ignoring their rights over livestock and undermining local initiatives and autonomy.From theCambridge English Corpus The memorialist is one who has been disinherited or disenfranchised.From theCambridge English Corpus Refugees and the politically disenfranchised were enumerated, classified, controlled, isolated, forcibly employed, resettled or even jailed.From theCambridge English Corpus This would be a logic of belonging to the 'others' to those who have been conquered, disenfranchised, dispossessed.From theCambridge English Corpus A full understanding of political development requires attentiveness to dialectics shaped by minority parties, by individuals who were defeated, even by groups which history sometimes caricatures as disenfranchised.From theCambridge English Corpus To be sure, active participation in local government remained the prerogative of the middle and lower middle classes, but the propertyless and disenfranchised working classes would benefit from this, too.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |