democracy
US /dɪˈmɑkrəsi/
Definition
the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
Free elections are an important part of a healthy democracy.
Word Family
Synonyms
- republica political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Collocations
- Easy live in a democracyto live in a democracy, meaning to inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
- Medium principles of representative democracydescribing principles of representative democracy (a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct)
- Hard threats undermining modern democracydescribing threats undermining modern democracy (something that is a source of danger)
- Very Hard the bedrock of constitutional democracyreferring to the bedrock of constitutional democracy
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