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democracy

/dih-mok-ruh-see/US // dɪˈmɒk rə si //UK // (dɪˈmɒkrəsɪ) //

民主,民主政治,民主制度,民主制

Related Words

justice司法,公正,公正性,司法公正freedom自由,自由度,自由权,自由的equality平等,平等性,平等的,平等问题commonwealth英联邦,联邦,英格兰,联邦政府suffrage选举权,投票权,参政权,选举emancipation解放,解放思想,解放军,松绑republic共和国,共和,共和制,共和党equalitarianism平等主义,平权主义,平均主义,均等主义egalitarianism平均主义,平等主义,平权主义,均衡主义representative government代议制政府,代表性政府,代议政府,代议制的政府

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural de·moc·ra·cies.

    • : government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
    • : a state having such a form of government: The United States and Canada are democracies.
    • : a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges.
    • : political or social equality; democratic spirit.
    • : the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noungovernment in which people participate
Synonyms
equality平等,平等性,平等的,平等问题freedom自由,自由度,自由权,自由的justice司法,公正,公正性,司法公正commonwealth英联邦,联邦,英格兰,联邦政府egalitarianism平均主义,平等主义,平权主义,均衡主义emancipation解放,解放思想,解放军,松绑equalitarianism平等主义,平权主义,平均主义,均等主义republic共和国,共和,共和制,共和党suffrage选举权,投票权,参政权,选举liberal government自由主义政府,自由派政府,自由主义的政府,自由主义者的政府representative government代议制政府,代表性政府,代议政府,代议制的政府

Examples

  • The political winners ritually prosecuting the political losers is not the stuff of a mature democracy.

  • America’s founders did not believe in either concept of democracy, so the fact that the hardboiled compromise between large and small states is inegalitarian did not bother them very much.

  • What Strzok makes clear is that democracy depends on Washington getting with the program.

  • Head to your state’s elections website, spend some time learning how to vote early, and check “participate in democracy” off your to-do list.

  • It will also be crucial to strengthen democracy and safeguard human rights in response to increasing levels of violence across the region.

  • A second document was titled: “Gambia Reborn: A Charter for Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy and Development.”

  • Faal told the FBI that his group was trying “restore democracy to The Gambia and improve the lives of its people.”

  • Actually, the guessing game is over; the weddings have begun, as have weird attempts to circumvent our constitutional democracy.

  • Thomas Piketty raised the Big Questions this year about democracy and inequality.

  • Piketty only waves his hands around the all-important question of whether economic inequality undermines democracy.

  • He was so zealous a partisan of democracy, and of Cromwell, that the authorities frequently placed him in a straight jacket.

  • I have a strong reverence for traditions, and no taste whatever for democracy—that would be too long a step.

  • Democracy, let us grant it, is the best system of government as yet operative in this world of sin.

  • I had long ago adopted democracy as a good policy, so now I stopped to introduce myself.

  • He based this plan upon the premise that democracy would be more successful if greater numbers of individuals were educated.

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