Detailed description and alternate definitions of the word 'enfranchise':
To bestow a franchise on.
To free, as from bondage.
To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
Synonyms of word 'enfranchise' :
affranchise
Antonym of word 'enfranchise' :
disenfranchise
disfranchise
Usage of the word 'enfranchise' in Sentences :
enfranchise non-principals in Wales.
enfranchised the tenants.
In future both parties would need to have definite policies with which to appeal to the newly enfranchised voters.
enfranchised in this way to sponsor American withdrawal from Iraq.
enfranchiseas responsible for enfranchising some seven million British women but left another five million still without the vote.
enfranchise the masses.
enfranchised the middle classes.
Sent members in 1307 and permanently enfranchised by King Edward VI.
enfranchiseLets - Local Exchange Trading Schemes ( LETS ) are a way of enfranchising people who are left out of the economic mainstream.
However, Richard warned that before we can become fully enfranchised, we still have some way to go.
The manor was formerly dependant on the barony of Linstock or Crosby; but the land is now all enfranchised.
The ten pound suffrage introduced by the Reform Bill had only enfranchised the middle classes.
Neither Bush not Kerry would be politically enfranchised in this way to sponsor American withdrawal from Iraq.
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