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democracy

英[dɪ'mɒkrəsɪ] 美[də'mɑkrəsi]
  • n. 民主,民主主义;民主政治

英英释意


1. the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives
2. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
3. the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group