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constituent

/kuhn-stich-oo-uhnt/US // kənˈstɪtʃ u ənt //UK // (kənˈstɪtjʊənt) //

组成人员,组成,构成,成分

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : serving to compose or make up a thing; component: the constituent parts of a motor.
    • : having power to frame or alter a political constitution or fundamental law, as distinguished from lawmaking power: a constituent assembly.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a constituent element, material, etc.; component.
    • : a person who authorizes another to act in his or her behalf, as a voter in a district represented by an elected official.
    • : Grammar. an element considered as part of a construction.Compare immediate constituent, ultimate constituent.

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Examples

  • The researchers first identified counties in six states that adopted more universal mail-in voting procedures from 1992 to 2018, namely mailing all constituents a ballot before Election Day and limiting or eliminating in-person voting.

  • The house of cards had already begun crumbling and the world’s largest country eventually dissolved into more than a dozen constituent states in 1991.

  • Desmond said his goal with the podcast is to bring on a variety of perspectives so that his constituents have “more insight and information” about the current health crisis.

  • Eventually, gravity causes the cloud’s constituents to clump together.

  • However, this year Jones has the endorsement of every other Democrat who ran in 2018, and she’s taken aim at Tlaib’s sometimes-controversial national profile as a member of “The Squad,” claiming Tlaib is prioritizing celebrity over her constituents.

  • But the tide was turning on this issue, an email from another constituent made clear.

  • But he is saying something simple: Nations, institutions, companies, and so on do not act; their constituent individuals do.

  • He described talking to a constituent who asked if “they are going to put those immigrants in the FEMA camps.”

  • Is this the future of elected official-constituent communications?

  • The media is a critical link in the chain that connects constituent to representative to lasting social change.

  • Carbon is the largest constituent of plants, and forms, in round numbers, about 50 per cent of their weight when dry.

  • Silica is an invariable constituent of the ash, but in most plants occurs but in small quantity.

  • The other essential constituent of the Catacombs, besides the galleries already described, consists of the cubicula.

  • It requires no strain of the imagination to admit the existence of a new constituent of the atmosphere.

  • After nearly three years of strenuous effort, the Constituent Assembly had come to an end.