universal suffrage
1universal suffrage — noun uncount the right of all the adults in a country to vote in elections …
2universal suffrage — ► NOUN ▪ the right of all adults (with minor exceptions) to vote in political elections …
3Universal suffrage — Part of the Politics series Elections Allotment (sortition) …
4universal suffrage — noun suffrage for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country • Hypernyms: ↑right to vote, ↑vote, ↑suffrage * * * noun : suffrage of all adults not legally disqualified by the laws of a country: a. : manhood suffrage …
5universal suffrage — suffrage for all persons over a certain age, usually 18 or 21, who in other respects satisfy the requirements established by law. [1700 10] * * * …
6universal suffrage — Also known as franchise. Refers to the extension of the right to vote, to all adults, without distinction as to race, sex, belief or social status. In most old established democracies, only a limited number of people at first had a say in the… …
7universal suffrage — /junəvɜsəl ˈsʌfrɪdʒ/ (say yoohnuhversuhl sufrij) noun 1. the right to vote provided to all. 2. the principle that the right to vote for one s government, etc., should be extended to everyone above a specified age, usually eighteen. Also, adult… …
8universal suffrage — noun the right of all adults (with minor exceptions) to vote in political elections …
9universal suffrage — UK / US noun [uncountable] the right of all the adults in a country to vote in elections …
10Suffrage — (from the Latin suffragium , meaning voting tablet , and figuratively right to vote ; probably from suffrago hough , and originally a term for the pastern bone used to cast votes) is the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right. In that …
