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Disenfranchised

Definition: Disenfranchised

Disenfranchised

Adjective

1. 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: Disenfranchised

Synonyms: disfranchised (adj), voteless (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: enfranchised (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Disenfranchised

DomainTitle

Books

  • Disenfranchised Grief: New Directions, Challenges, and Strategies for Practice (reference)

  • In Search of Freedom: How Persons With Disabilities Have Been Disenfranchised from the Mainstream of American Society (reference)

  • Information, Ideology and Freedom: The Disenfranchised Electorate (reference)

  • Power of the powerless : a study of South Africa's disenfranchised, their organisational affiliations and access to power based on a sample study of 3316 disenfranchised South Africans (reference)

  • Revolution and the political integration of the enslaved and disenfranchised (reference)

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Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Disenfranchised

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Disenfranchised

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)46.34%1980,337
Adjective (general or positive)41.46%1785,106
Lexical Verb (past tense)12.2%5157,705
                    Total100.00%41N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Disenfranchised

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

disenfranchised

6

disenfranchised grief

5

african disenfranchised male voter

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Disenfranchised

Language Translations for "disenfranchised"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

jogfosztott (outlaw). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isenfranchisedday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Disenfranchised

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).

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Rhyming with "Disenfranchised"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "disenfranchised" (pronounced di'sunfra"nkhī'zd)
9-n f r a" n kh ī' z denfranchised.
3-ī' z daccessorized, 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.

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Anagrams: Disenfranchised

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Disenfranchised


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 73 65 6E 66 72 61 6E 63 68 69 73 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ...    .    -.    ..-.    .-.    .-    -.    -.-.    ....    ..    ...    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#101 &#110 &#102 &#114 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#104 &#105 &#115 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0065 006E 0066 0072 0061 006E 0063 0068 0069 0073 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

387585718072846780697475857170

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Disenfranchised"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításmagyar

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationangol
 


INDEX

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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