constituent
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- noun
- /kənˈstɪtʃuənt/
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elector
- As a representative, it's important to communicate regularly with your constituents about local issues.
- represent constituents
- serve constituents
- elected by constituents
You have bigger problems than your constituents not agreeing with you.
- You have bigger problems than your constituents not agreeing with you.
- That's what your constituents hired you to go to.
- How do you educate your constituents on the latest bill agenda?
- Yeah, that's called lying to your constituents.
- And in the back in the day, the goal was that each party could go back to their constituents and say we won.
- So India could decide, all right, we're gonna get more tablets out to our constituents.
- And I learned that one of your duties as a senator is to write congratulatory notes to constituents.
Examples
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You know, there are my constituents to consider too.
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Here you have a letter from constituents, and people have concerns!
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And those are the those are the constituents we're speaking to.
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And in the back in the day, the goal was that each party could go back to their constituents and say we won.
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I think it's very important to hear from our constituents and people like you.
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And the economic costs of each proposal are real both to your constituents and to the federal government.
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Speaker, Prime Minister, my constituent Robert Walker sadly died last year.
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I'm talking about my constituents being out of work.
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How do you educate your constituents on the latest bill agenda?
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The staffers are the eyes and ears of the legislators, who would like to please their constituents, especially in election years.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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A person who by law can choose leaders in an election
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A person who has the right to vote in an election
A woman who has the right to vote in an election
Compounds
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Surface Forms
Morphology
constituent = constitute (semi-transparent) = constitut + ent
The base 'constitute' is clear, but the specific meaning of a person represented in a constituency is not directly derivable.
Etymology
The word constituent comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and statuere 'to set up', the same root behind constitution. So a constituent today is a person who is part of the group that chooses or supports an elected official.