electorate
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4.9
- noun
- /ɪˈlɛktəˌrət/
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electorado
- The new policy was designed to meet the needs of the entire electorate before the upcoming election.
- the electorate voted
- appeal to the electorate
- the majority of the electorate
They are trying to brainwash a future voting electorate to accept false results.
- They are trying to brainwash a future voting electorate to accept false results.
- How on earth could they get their message out to the electorate?
- What is this cruelty that is emanating among the American electorate?
- Their leadership will have, I think, a significant impact on what we might call the black electorate.
- So I think will this will this work for President Trump in terms of his voters, his electorate?
- Adapt though we must if we are to be all that we should be to the electorate.
- Does it ever get exhausting seeing how slow it takes for the electorate to eventually catch up to ideas that feel so basic?
- Consensus amongst the electorate is so far away from what is optimal for the country and perhaps the world at large.
- But he says, not that I do supplement myself, but the whole problem was that a politicized electorate always either ends in Bolshevism or fascism.
- And frankly, if you look at the demographics of the electorate, our system isn't popular with anybody.
- Here is like the electorate, you know, voting for and two times and then all of a sudden we were more racist now than we were.
Examples
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There is a serious lack of insight and of evidence-based decision-making by an informed electorate in our political system.
Academic text (2011) -
Both Bush and Clinton have promised "change" to a frustrated electorate, without exempting world affairs from that prescription.
Academic text (1992) -
This is the day that the electorate has its chance.
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Now, the extent to which a government is willing to push that perspective on the electorate of that country is a matter of law.
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I'm sure your electorate will be happy by our final proposal.
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Surely such a state of affairs would mean that the electorate was not informed.
Academic text (1990) -
Consensus amongst the electorate is so far away from what is optimal for the country and perhaps the world at large.
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This law also states that the governing power rests with the electorate.
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In majoritarian politics, a small number of political parties represent large segments of the electorate with many policies.
Academic text (2013) -
And that basic education leads us to an informed electorate, an electorate that can better weigh truths, facts, and options.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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7.1
A group of people in an area who vote for a representative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Electorate comes from the same root as elect and election, from an old Latin word eligere meaning 'to choose'. So the electorate are the people who choose, the voters who are allowed to vote.