constituency
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7.1
- noun
- /kənˈstɪtʃuənsi/
:
electorado
- Now, look, I am here to assure you that as long as I am the representative for this constituency, Moore Street Market is here to stay!
- represent a constituency
- constituency interests
- constituency support
You don't represent the constituency you came from, right?
- You don't represent the constituency you came from, right?
- Your concern is that your constituency would have bought it if you'd gone all in.
- We had a broader geographically, much wider constituency we were trying to defend.
- You know, it all depends on marginal swings in marginal constituencies.
- And now that's not happening, right, Smaller constituencies can matter more as we become more divided.
- David Gauke, the justice secretary, showed it and was challenged in his constituency but luckily survived.
- But again, that's their flaw there, that they will not stand up to their own constituency.
- So I was the youngest of our constituency Labour Party secretary.
- Welcome Mills in my Mid Derbyshire constituency are in a state of disrepair.
- They, they have opposition often to a contend with constituencies and constituencies.
- He used to be a decent constituency MP in the next borough along to me.
- It was some of both different in different constituencies.
Examples
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Nice to see you haven't lost touch with your constituency.
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Buckley discovered a new constituency for the Republican party.
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The youth now make up a valued constituency in modern society.
Academic text (1999) -
Learn about the people standing in your constituency, who your local MP might be.
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I was elected to this body, by a constituency committed to the preservation of law and order.
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I know that the schools in my constituency are struggling with their budgets.
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You've got to start building a real constituency for the next election.
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You don't represent the constituency you came from, right?
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The alderman's taking a walking tour of the block before Friday's city council meeting to let the constituency know that he's concerned.
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The senator held a town hall meeting to discuss issues important to his constituency.
Synonyms
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4.9
All the people in an area who have the right to vote
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4.0
A part of a United States state that elects one person to the House of Representatives
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3.5
An area of a town or city where people vote at one polling place
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Surface Forms
Morphology
constituency = constituent (transparent) = constituent + ency
Derived from 'constituent' + the nominal suffix '-ency'; 'constituency' straightforwardly denotes the body/group of constituents (voters), so the relation is compositionally clear.
Etymology
The word constituency comes from Latin parts con- 'together' and stituere 'to set up', the same root as constitute. So a constituency is a group of people 'set together' in one area who choose a representative.