enfranchised
/ɪnˈfræntʃaɪzd/
adjective
- Having the right to vote in elections.
- In a democracy, all enfranchised citizens have a say in who leads them.
- The organization registered thousands of previously enfranchised but inactive voters.
- The newly enfranchised voters lined up at the polling stations.
- Freed from slavery or servitude; having full civil rights.
- The enfranchised population began to build new lives as free people.
- The novel tells the story of an enfranchised family starting a business.
- After the war, the enfranchised workers could finally own land.
Antonyms
verb
- Past tense and past participle of enfranchise: gave someone the right to vote or freed from slavery.
- The new constitution enfranchised all adults over the age of eighteen.
- The 19th Amendment enfranchised women in the United States.
- The king's decree enfranchised the serfs in his kingdom.