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Definition: Disenfranchised |
DisenfranchisedAdjective1. Deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disenfranchised" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
Synonyms: DisenfranchisedSynonyms: disfranchised (adj), voteless (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: enfranchised (adj). (additional references) |
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Business | For example, South Africa has a population of 44 million people, and more than 30 million were disenfranchised until the new government of 1994. Never before 1994 were they able to take part in the tourism industry. (references) | |
Economic History | South Africa | Blacks remained effectively disenfranchised. (references) |
Tajikistan | The Republic of Tajikistan gained its independence during the breakup of the U.S.S.R. on September 9, 1991 and promptly fell into a civil war from 1992-97 between old-guard regionally based ruling elites and disenfranchised regions, democratic liberal reformists, and Islamists loosely organized in a United Tajik Opposition (UTO). (references) | |
Dominican Republic | By all estimates, total disenfranchised voters far exceeded the 22,281-vote margin of victory in favor of President Balaguer on August 2, 1994. Following an intense period of political activity, the competing political parties signed a Pact for Democracy on August 10, reducing President Balaguer's term of office from 4 to 2 years, setting early elections, and reforming the constitution. (references) | |
Human Rights | Paraguay | Although the position has little real authority, the adviser is a strong spokesman for the human rights community and the rights of the disenfranchised and uses his position to identify and publicize human rights abuses by the Government. (references) |
Indigenous People | Bangladesh | Government leaders counter that voting is a fundamental right and that citizens cannot be disenfranchised from the election process. (references) |
Political Economy | Cote d'Ivoire | At least 26 percent of the country's population, including many lifelong residents of the country, remain politically disenfranchised noncitizens. (references) |
Political Rights | Niger | However, this has not always been the case; the January 1996 coup, the fraudulent 1996 presidential election, the disruption of local elections in February 1999, and the April 1999 coup effectively disenfranchised citizens in previous years. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Disenfranchised" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 46.34% of the time. "Disenfranchised" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 46.34% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 41.46% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 12.2% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
disenfranchised | 6 |
disenfranchised grief | 5 |
african disenfranchised male voter | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "disenfranchised"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | jogfosztott (outlaw). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | isenfranchisedday | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Disenfranchised" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dienfranchise, disenfrachise, disenfrachised, disenfranchis, disenfranchize, disenfranchized, disenfrancise, disinfranchise, disinfranchised, disinfrancised, isenfranchised. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disenfranchised" (pronounced di'sunfra"nkhī'zd) |
| 9 | -n f r a" n kh ī' z d | enfranchised. |
| 3 | -ī' z d | accessorized, advertised, agonized, aluminized, amortized, analyzed, anglicized, annualized, antagonized, apologized, authorized, balkanized, brutalized, burglarized, capitalized, capsized, caramelized, carbonized, catalyzed, categorized, centralized, characterized, circumcised, civilized, collateralized, collectivized, colonized, colorized, commercialized, compromised, computerized, containerized, creolized, criminalized, criticized, crystallized, customized, decentralized, demilitarized, demobilized, democratized, demonized, demoralized, denationalized, denuclearized, departmentalized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, destabilized, digitized, disorganized, downsized, dramatized, editorialized, emphasized, energized, epitomized, equalized, eulogized, excised, exercised, familiarized, fantasized, federalized, fertilized, fictionalized, finalized, formalized, fossilized, galvanized, generalized, globalized, harmonized, hellenized, heroized, homogenized, hospitalized, humanized, hydrolyzed, hypnotized, hypothesized, idealized, idolized, immobilized, immunized, improvised, industrialized, internalized, ironized, itemized, jeopardized, legalized, legitimized, liberalized, lionized, localized, magnetized, marginalized, materialized, maximized, mechanized, memorialized, memorized, mesmerized, metastasized, midsized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, mobilized, modernized, monopolized, motorized, nationalized, naturalized, neutralized, nonunionized, normalized, organized, ostracized, outsized, oxidized, paralyzed, pasteurized, patronized, penalized, personalized, plagiarized, polarized, politicized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, professionalized, proselytized, publicized, pulverized, radicalized, randomized, rationalized, realized, reauthorized, recapitalized, recognized, regionalized, reorganized, revitalized, revolutionized, romanticized, rubberized, sanitized, scandalized, scrutinized, securitized, sensitized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, standardized, sterilized, stigmatized, stylized, subsidized, summarized, supervised, symbolized, sympathized, synchronized, synthesized, tantalized, televised, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, trivialized, unamortized, unauthorized, undercapitalized, undersized, underutilized, unexercised, unionized, unorganized, unrealized, unrecognized, unsubsidized, unsupervised, urbanized, utilized, vandalized, vaporized, visualized, westernized, winterized. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-f-h-i-i-n-n-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: disenfranchise. | |
-2 letters: disfranchised. | |
-3 letters: disfranchise, enfranchised, enfranchises. | |
-4 letters: enfranchise, franchisees. | |
-5 letters: archfiends, candidness, definienda, dissidence, endarchies, financiers, franchised, franchisee, franchises, fricasseed, handedness, hiddenness, hindrances, rancidness, refinanced, refinances, refinished, refinishes, shinneries. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 65 6E 66 72 61 6E 63 68 69 73 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... . -. ..-. .-. .- -. -.-. .... .. ... . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01100101 01101110 01100110 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01101000 01101001 01110011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s e n f r a n c h i s e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0065 006E 0066 0072 0061 006E 0063 0068 0069 0073 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585718072846780697475857170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | magyar |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | angol |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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