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noun, government by the people or their elected representatives
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democracy
- 1) noun, government by the people or their elected representatives
- 2) noun, a political or social unit governed ultimately by all its members
- 3) noun, the practice or spirit of social equality
- 4) noun, a social condition of classlessness and equality
- 5) noun, the common people, esp as a political force
Etymology
C16: from French démocratie, from Late Latin dēmocratia, from Greek dēmokratia government by the people; see demo-, -cracy
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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