Democracy
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
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Senses
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the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
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the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- commonwealthmajority rulerepublic
- plural
- Democracies
- possessive
- Democracy's
- pluralpossessive
- Democracies'