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democracy   (TTS Sound)

The noun democracy has 3 senses

• democracy -- (the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives)


• democracy, republic, commonwealth -- (a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them)


• majority rule, democracy -- (the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group)