enfranchised

/ɪnˈfræntʃaɪzd/
adjective
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
verb
  1. 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.