democracy
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2.7
- noun
- /dɪˈmɒkrəsi/
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democracia
- You can find lots of evidence to support the argument that democracies don't fight other democracies.
- majoritarian democracy
- principle of democracy
- concept of democracy
Why this one person and not a democracy or at least an aristocracy of sorts?
- Why this one person and not a democracy or at least an aristocracy of sorts?
- And now all the protections that the founding fathers created to protect America from the evils of democracy, you know, they called it mob ocracy.
Examples
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I believe that democracy is about a collision of ideas.
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So democracy is not an end in itself.
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I thought this was a democracy and I thought a democracy was based on the collective will of the people.
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The Great Depression brought with it a crisis in the relationship between democracy and capitalism.
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Under those circumstances, democracy demands consensus and provides the mechanisms through which to achieve it.
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So we're talking today about how the whole, our democracy is now a kleptocracy.
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This was the period in which the arts, democracy, science and philosophy flourished in the Greek world.
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It looks messy, but democracy is messy.
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In a democracy, citizens have the right to vote for their leaders.
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The committee operates as a democracy, where every member's opinion counts equally.
Synonyms
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3.6
Decisions made by most people in a group
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9.1
A political system where most people decide and their choices have most power, often ignoring smaller groups' rights
Antonyms
Compounds
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5.1
A political belief that uses democracy to make the economy fairer and support people's basic needs
- Specialized
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A system where parliament chooses and controls the government
- Formal
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A democracy where strong courts and laws protect people's rights and stop attempts to take power
How Democratic
Surface Forms
Morphology
democracy = demo + cracy
This majority-rule sense uses the same classical formation, but the meaning is not directly recoverable from familiar modern English morphemes for most learners.
Etymology
Democracy comes from the Greek parts demos 'the people' and kratos 'power' or 'rule', and it can also mean 'rule by the majority'. So in this sense a democracy is a way for a group to let most people decide what to do.